A simple test of the nutrition-based efficiency wage model

被引：24

作者：

Swamy, AV

机构：

[1] Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park

来源：

JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | 1997年 / 53卷 / 01期

关键词：

efficiency wage; nutrition; rural unemployment;

D O I：

10.1016/S0304-3878(97)00004-7

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

In the nutrition-based efficiency wage model wages in labor markets in developing countries are rigid because lowering them would reduce worker productivity and increase the cost per efficiency unit. I evaluate this claim, using data from rural India. I find that, contrary to what has been assumed in these models, a wage cut should lower the cost per efficiency unit of labor. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.

引用

页码：85 / 98

页数：14

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