Efficiency Wages and Labor Mobility in an Open Economy

By Julio A. Santaella, Pierre-Richard Agénor

October 1, 1993

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Julio A. Santaella, and Pierre-Richard Agénor. Efficiency Wages and Labor Mobility in an Open Economy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1993) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

The paper analyzes the role of labor market segmentation and relative wage rigidity in the transmission process of macroeconomic shocks in a two-sector optimizing model of a small open economy. The analysis is first conducted in the context of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. The discussion is then extended to consider the existence of short-run constraints on labor movements. The results highlight the role of efficiency considerations in the behavior of sectoral wages. A deflationary policy induces a reallocation of labor across sectors, but has no long-run effect on the unemployment rate.

Subject: Employment, Labor, Labor markets, Real wages, Wages

Keywords: WP

Publication Details

Pages:

40
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Working Paper No. 1993/079
Stock No:

WPIEA0791993
ISBN:

9781451850161
ISSN:

1018-5941

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