Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65944 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2012-07
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
This paper identifies a data-consistent, equilibrium model of unemployment, wage dispersion, quit turnover and firm growth dynamics. In a separating equilibrium, more productive firms signal their type by paying strictly higher wages in every state of the market. Workers optimally quit to firms paying a higher wage and so move effciently from less to more productive firms. Start-up firms are initially small and grow endogenously over time. Consistent with Gibrat's law, individual firm growth rates depend on firm productivity but not on firm size. Aggregate unemployment evolves endogenously. Restrictions are identified so that the model is consistent with empirical wage distributions.
Subjects: 
wage dispersion
signalling
labor turnover
unemployment
JEL: 
D21
D49
E23
J42
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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