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Workers' skills and product selection

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Jaskold Gabszewicz, Jean [UCL] Turrini, Alessandro

When the production of high quality goods needs the employment of qualified labour, firms' decisions concerning quality are affected by the extent to which skills are abundant. By means of a comparison between monopoly and perfect competition, we show how market power in such a context may entail a distorsion in product selection towards too high average quality.

Document type Document de travail (Working Paper)
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 1999
Collection CORE Discussion Papers - 1999/06
Affiliation UCL - CORE - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
Keywords Product selection ; Vertical differentiation ; Market power ; Human capital
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[boreal:117443] Workers' skills and product selection
Bibliographic reference Jaskold Gabszewicz, Jean ; Turrini, Alessandro. Workers' skills and product selection. CORE Discussion Papers ; 1999/06 (1999)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/4018