Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81208 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IUI Working Paper No. 606
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to introduce endogenous housing consumption in an efficiency wage model in which two cases are considered: very high and zero relocation costs. First, in both cases, we are able to totally characterize the efficiency wage for any preferences that are quasi-linear with respect to the composite good consumption. Second, in each case, we show how endogenous housing consumption affects the value of the efficiency wage (compared to the case of fixed housing consumption) and demonstrates the existence and the uniqueness of a steady-state equilibrium. Finally, we compare the two models and show how mobility costs affect the efficiency wage setting.
Subjects: 
Relocation Costs
Location-Dependent Wages
Urban Labor Markets
JEL: 
J41
R14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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