Efficiency Wages and Labor Mobility in an Open Economy /

The paper analyzes the role of labor market segmentation and relative wage rigidity in the transmission process of macroeconomic shocks in a two-sector optimizing model of a small open economy. The analysis is first conducted in the context of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. The discussion is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santaella, Julio
Other Authors: Agenor, Pierre-Richard
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1993.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1993/079
Online Access:Full text available on IMF