Citation

Cabrales A. SERIEs 2010; 1(4): 371-386.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Spanish Economic Association, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s13209-010-0028-1

PMID

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Abstract

I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage increases that have no relation with productivity and downward wage flexibility. I suggest that labor and human resource economics can benefit from including envy into the standard set of factors considered in their theoretical and empirical models.