Testing urban efficiency wages in France and Spain

Giménez-Nadal, J.I. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Molina, J.A. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Velilla, J. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This paper analyzes the existence of efficiency wages in the French and Spanish labor markets, within an urban efficiency wage theoretical framework. Using data from the French and Spanish time use surveys for the year 2009–2010, results support the main hypothesis of urban efficiency wage models. In particular, that leisure and shirking at work are substitutes, that there is a negative relationship between commuting and leisure, and that there are positive relationships between commuting-shirking at work and commuting-earnings. These results represent the second test of this relationship in the literature, and the first empirical estimate of these relationships for France and Spain. The results show the existence of a direct link between commuting and earnings, which may be helpful in improving the functioning of labor markets.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1007/s00181-020-01928-x

Año: 2021

Publicado en: Empirical Economics 61 (2021), 2205–2236
ISSN: 0377-7332

Factor impacto JCR: 2.647 (2021)

Categ. JCR: SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS rank: 18 / 53 = 0.34 (2021) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: ECONOMICS rank: 144 / 381 = 0.378 (2021) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 2.5 - Social Sciences (Q2) - Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Q2) - Mathematics (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.535 - Economics and Econometrics (Q2) - Statistics and Probability (Q2) - Mathematics (miscellaneous) (Q2)

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Fund. Análisis Económico (Dpto. Análisis Económico)