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STABLE SETS AND STEADY WAGES
Author(s) -
Moore John
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
scottish journal of political economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1467-9485
pISSN - 0036-9292
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2007.00438.x
Subject(s) - wage , workforce , economics , labour economics , set (abstract data type) , conjunction (astronomy) , microeconomics , computer science , economic growth , physics , astronomy , programming language
This paper uses the notion of the Stable Set, in conjunction with a mild restriction on the extent to which a firm can quickly replace its entire workforce, to explain equal treatment across workers within a firm yet wage differentials across firms, and why a firm responds with quantity rather than with wage adjustments to shocks.