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Markets and diversity /

Annotation A staunch neoclassical economist, Sherwin Rosen drew inspiration from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, particularly his theory of compensating wage differentials, which Rosen felt was central to all economic problems involving product differentiation and spatial considerations. The ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosen, Sherwin, 1938-2001
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : markets and diversity
  • Hedonic prices and implicit markets : product differentiation in pure competition
  • Discrimination in the market for public school teachers
  • The value of saving a life : evidence from the labor market
  • Learning and experience in the labor market
  • Substitution and division of labour
  • Education and self-selection
  • Specialization and human capital
  • The economics of superstars
  • Authority, control, and the distribution of earnings
  • Prizes and incentives in elimination tournaments
  • Rank-order tournaments as optimum labor contracts
  • Contracts and the market for executives.