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The causes and economic consequences of envy

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ISSN: 1869-4187 (Print)
ISSN: 1869-4195 (Online)
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2010-06
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In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage increases that have no relation with productivity and downward wage flexibility. I suggest that labor and human resource economics can benefit from including envy into the standard set of factors considered in their theoretical and empirical models.
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16 pages, 1 figure.-- Presidential address delivered at the 34th Symposium of the Spanish Economic Association in Valencia, Spain, on December 10, 2009.
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Envy, Interdependent preferences, Skill segregation, Wage dynamics, Wage dispersion, Internal labor market, Recursive contracts
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SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2010, n. 1, pp. 371-386