A Bioeconomic Foundation for the Nutrition-based Efficiency Wage Model
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A Bioeconomic Foundation for the Nutrition-based Efficiency Wage Model. / Dalgaard, Carl-Johan Lars; Strulik, Holger.
Hanover Leibniz University, School of Economics and Management, 2008.Research output: Working paper › Research
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TY - UNPB
T1 - A Bioeconomic Foundation for the Nutrition-based Efficiency Wage Model
AU - Dalgaard, Carl-Johan Lars
AU - Strulik, Holger
N1 - JEL Classification: O11, O15, J21, J31
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model. By extending the model with respect to heterogeneity in worker body size and a physiologically founded impact of body size on productivity, we demonstrate that the nutrition-based efficiency wage model is compatible with the empirical regularity that taller workers simultaneously earn higher wages and are less likely to be unemployed in less developed economies. The theory also provides an answer to the question of why such regularity may disappear in the process of development.
AB - Drawing on recent research on allometric scaling and energy consumption, the present paper develops a nutrition-based efficiency wage model from first principles. The biologically micro-founded model allows us to address empirical criticism of the original nutrition-based efficiency wage model. By extending the model with respect to heterogeneity in worker body size and a physiologically founded impact of body size on productivity, we demonstrate that the nutrition-based efficiency wage model is compatible with the empirical regularity that taller workers simultaneously earn higher wages and are less likely to be unemployed in less developed economies. The theory also provides an answer to the question of why such regularity may disappear in the process of development.
M3 - Working paper
BT - A Bioeconomic Foundation for the Nutrition-based Efficiency Wage Model
PB - Hanover Leibniz University, School of Economics and Management
ER -
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