AGGREGATION WITH A NON-CONVEX LABOUR SUPPLY DECISION, UNOBSERVABLE EFFORT, AND RECIPROCITY (“GIFT EXCHANGE”) IN LABOR RELATIONS

  • Aleksandar VASILEV Independent Researcher, Bulgaria
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14505/tpref.v9.1(17).05

Abstract

The purpose of this note is to explore the problem of non-convex labour supply decision in an economy with reciprocity in labour relations ("gift exchange") a la Danthine and Kurmann (2010), and explicitly perform the aggregation presented in Vasilev (2017) without a formal proof, and thus provide - starting from micro-foundations - the derivation of the expected utility functions used for the aggregate household. We show how lotteries as in Rogerson (1988) can be used to convexify consumption sets, and aggregate over individual preferences. With a discrete labour supply decisions, the elasticity of aggregate labour supply increases from unity to infinity.

References

[1] Danthine, J.-P., and Kurmann, A. 2010. The Business Cycle Implications of Reciprocity in Labor Relations, Journal of Monetary Economics, 57: 837-850.
[2] Hansen, G. 1985. Indivisible labor and the business cycle, Journal of Monetary Economics, 16: 309-327.
[3] Rogerson, R. 1988. Indivisible labor, lotteries and equilibrium, Journal of Monetary Economics, 21: 3-16.
[4] Vasilev, A. 2017. A Real-Business-Cycle model with reciprocity in labor relations and fiscal policy: the case of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Economics Papers 03-2017, Center for Economic Theories and Policies, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Published
2018-06-30
How to Cite
VASILEV, Aleksandar. AGGREGATION WITH A NON-CONVEX LABOUR SUPPLY DECISION, UNOBSERVABLE EFFORT, AND RECIPROCITY (“GIFT EXCHANGE”) IN LABOR RELATIONS. Theoretical and Practical Research in Economic Fields, [S.l.], v. 9, n. 1, p. 45-48, june 2018. ISSN 2068-7710. Available at: <https://journals.aserspublishing.eu/tpref/article/view/2234>. Date accessed: 20 apr. 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.14505/tpref.v9.1(17).05.
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