Gift Exchange and the Business Cycle: The Fair Wage Strikes Back

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 166-193

  Collard, Fabrice ^a   De La Croix, David ^b  

^a CEPREMAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Efficiency wage; effort; time nonseparability; RBC; wage sluggishness; business cycle puzzle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010655661     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.1999.0075     Document Type: Article

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