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dc.contributor.authorDalgaard, Carl-Johanen
dc.contributor.authorStrulik, Holgeren
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-12-
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-06T13:11:23Z-
dc.date.available2009-08-06T13:11:23Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/27206-
dc.description.abstractDrawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model. By extending the model with respect to heterogeneity in worker body size and a physiologically founded impact of body size on productivity, we demonstrate that the nutrition-based efficiency wage model is compatible with the empirical regularity that taller workers simultaneously earn higher wages and are less likely to be unemployed in less developed economies. The theory also provides an answer to the question of why such regularity may disappear in the process of development.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aLeibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät |cHannoveren
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aDiskussionsbeitrag |x396en
dc.subject.jelO11en
dc.subject.jelO15en
dc.subject.jelJ21en
dc.subject.jelJ31en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordEfficiency Wagesen
dc.subject.keywordNutrition, Metabolismen
dc.subject.keywordAllometric Scalingen
dc.subject.keywordBody Sizeen
dc.subject.stwEffizienzlohnen
dc.subject.stwErnährungen
dc.subject.stwLebensstandarden
dc.subject.stwBioökonomiken
dc.subject.stwTheorieen
dc.titleA bioeconomic foundation for the nutrition-based efficiency wage model-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn568419189en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:han:dpaper:dp-396en

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