Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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883980 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 2010 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We study how the number of traders affects the interaction between a centralized exchange and bilateral negotiations in an experimental labor market with excess supply and incomplete contracts. Our large markets are three times as large as our small markets. In bilateral negotiations firms obtain information about employees’ performance in previous jobs. Though market forces put a downward pressure on wages in large markets, reciprocal tendencies do not differ. Hence, the occurrence of bilateral negotiations increases overall efficiency for both market sizes.
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Authors
Jordi Brandts, Klarita Gërxhani, Arthur Schram, Jolanda Ygosse-Battisti,