Extracts from this document. Introduction Robin Mehta Summary of Equilibrium Unemployment as a worker discipline device by Carl Shapiro and Joseph Stiglitz In a perfectly competitive labour market we expect to see that the demand for labour is equal to the supply of labour at a given equilibrium wage. If the wage paid to employees is higher then this equilibrium wage then the demand for labour will fall short of the supply and will cause some rate of unemployment.(This working the opposite way as well. Lexware Financial Office Plus 2013 Torrent on this page. ) When we find the wage being paid higher or lower than the equilibrium wage we expect to see it automatically falling or rising back to equilibrium level.
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However if we cite examples from real life we can almost always see that this isnt the case. We can more frequently than not discover that the equilibrium wage is being bettered by firms, and is consistently holding that level. Why this rewarding of employees with higher than equilibrium wages persists is the basic question that Carl Shapiro and Joseph Stiglitz endeavour to answer in their paper 'Equilibrium Unemployment as a worker discipline device.'
In attempting to answer this question Carl Shapiro and Joseph Stiglitz point out that we need to revert back to examing human nature itself, Humans will want to shirk as much work as possible.If they know they can get Middle Simply put the worker needs to weigh up the utility obtained from shirking against the utility gained from not shirking. C)Employers Here shapiro and stiglitz assume that there are M number of identical firms present and that each firm has a production function Q =F(L) L is the firms effective labour force.For simplicity they assume that the workers either conributes one unit of effective labour or none.Thus the firm bases its wage packet offering on this information. D)The prevailing market equilibrium This is where equilibrium wage and employment levels are produced by the model.Equilibrium occurs when each firm after considering its position against other firms in the industry deciedes to offer the going wage rather than different one. E)simple comparitive studies Here shapiro and staglitz discuss the outcome of changing different parameters.E. Photoshop Cs6 Portable Deutsch Download Youtube. G: Increasing the quit rate or decreasing the monitoring intensity leads to decreasing incentives to exert effort by employees.
F)Welfare analysis shapiro and staglitz demonstrate that equilibrium is not in general pareto optimal, when information cost are explicitly accounted for. 2.Extensions to the basic model In this section of the article the two relax some of the assumptions they have made in the first section and how the results differ. Conclusion The two point out that the assumption that people are identical is extremely unrealistic and this can be used by employers as a discipline tool. Carl Shapiro and Joseph Stiglitz discuss unemplloyment as an incetive device.They stated that when it is costly to monitor individuals, competitive equilibrium wil be charecterized by unemployment.They point out that although the type of unemployment discussed in this article is not the most important, it is a significant factor in the observed level of unemployment in lower skilled occupations.