Efficiency wages, involuntary unemployment and urban spatial structure

Article Abstract:

A labor market model was developed to determine the effects on involuntary unemployment of efficiency-wage policies, commuting cost differences and competition for land accessible to jobs. The model shows that efficiency-wage policies significantly contribute to involuntary unemployment. Commuting cost differences between workers and non-workers increase unemployment, while competition for land relegates the unemployed to the urban fringe. Extension of the model to a two-city system shows that significant wage and unemployment differentials may exist between cities with different productivity levels.

Models, Unemployment, Labor economics, Urban economics

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Spatial mobility and competition for jobs: some theory and evidence for Western Germany

Article Abstract:

A study conducted to analyze the countervailing effects of job competition between employed and unemployed job on the labor market conditions for regional mobility is presented.

Germany, Market information - general, Employment, Administration of General Economic Programs, Jobs & Employment, Economic aspects, Supply and demand, Labor market, Occupational mobility, Labour market

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