TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - The causes and economic consequences of envy
JO  - SERIEs
A1  - Cabrales, Antonio
SP  - 371
EP  - 386
VL  - 1
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.<p /> 
LA  - 
SN  - 1869-4187
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13209-010-0028-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -