Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35779 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3881
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort and types are private information. We show that there can exist a separating equilibrium in which workers self-select into different firms and firms employing cooperative workers make strictly positive profits. Profit differences across firms persist because cooperation strictly increases output and worker separation requires firms employing cooperative workers to pay out weakly lower wages.
Subjects: 
Team work
self-selection
JEL: 
D82
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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