Fixed cost, number of firms, and skill premium: An alternative source for rising wage inequality

Economics Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 141-144

  Kurokawa, Yoshinori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Entry deregulation; Firm size; Fixed cost; Number of firms; Skill premium; Variety skill complementarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954033821     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.04.049     Document Type: Article

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