Theories of Pay and Unemployment: Survey Evidence from Swedish Manufacturing Firms
通过对瑞典制造业企业人事经理和高级薪酬谈判者的访谈调查，检验了劳动力市场主流模型，发现相对工资和公平观念重要，效率工资机制普遍，且企业不愿雇佣低价竞标者。
An interview survey was designed to explore how personnel managers and senior wage negotiators respond to popular models of the labor market. As in Blinder and Choi (1990), our results indicate that relative wages and notions of fairness are important, and that this may explain nominal wage rigidity. We find much evidence of efficiency wage mechanisms. The reactions to some questions also point to theories based on rent-sharing. Moreover, while underbidding is not that uncommon, firms seem quite unwilling to hire underbidders. We also obtain indications of adverse selection problems.