STEADY‐STATE LABOR TURNOVER AS OPTIMAL HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIOR*
研究了劳动力流动模型与迁移模型中工资差异与劳动力流动并存的条件，通过将家庭状态（如人口、教育、健康）纳入效用最大化框架，扩展了传统便利品消费分析。
ABSTRACT. Models of the firm with costly labor turnover and models of migration with location‐specific consumption amenities are two standard explanations of the co‐existence of persistent wage differentials with extensive labor mobility. Labor turnover models postulate a worker quit function where the quit rate is inversely related to the regional wage differential in the steady state. We use amenity‐consumption models of migration to show conditions under which this postulate is consistent with household utility maximization. Our model extends standard amenity‐consumption analysis by making the value of amenities contingent on the “state” of the household. These household states are defined in terms of demographic, education, and health characteristics and are assumed to follow a Markov process.