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Efficiency Wages in Cournot-Oligopoly

In a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry and business stealing, output per firm is too low and the number of competitors excessive, assuming labor productivity to depend on the number of employees only or to be constant. However, a firm can raise the productivity of its workforce by paying higher wages. We show that such efficiency wages accentuate the distortions occurring in oligopoly. Specifically, excessive entry is aggravated and the welfare loss due to market power rises.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12351

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Thema
oligopoly
efficiency wages
excessive entry
welfare

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
de Pinto, Marco
Goerke, Laszlo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2019

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • de Pinto, Marco
  • Goerke, Laszlo
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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