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Income inequality in a job-search model with heterogeneous time preferences

Cysne, Rubens Penha

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This paper explores the use of an intertemporal job-search model in the investigation of within-cohort and between-cohort income inequality, the latter being generated by the heterogeneity of time preferences among cohorts of homogenous workers and the former by the cross-sectional turnover in the job market. It also offers an alternative explanation for the empirically-documented negative correlation between time preference and labor income. Under some speciÖc distributions regarding wage offers and time preferences, we show how the within-cohort and between-cohort Gini coe¢ cients of income distribution can be calculated, and how they vary as a function of the parameters of the model.

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Tipo
Estudo
Ano
2004
Instituição
Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia
Idioma
Inglês
Acesso
Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/381

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