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BPEA | 1974 No. 3Primary and Secondary Labor Markets: A Critique of the Dual Approach
Discussants:
Michael J. Piore,
R. A. Gordon, and
Robert E. Hall
Robert E. Hall
Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics
- Stanford University
Robert E. Hall
Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics
- Stanford University
1974, No. 3
OVER THE PAST several years, a number of economists have developed what is called the “dual labor market” theory. Much of this work has been empirical or descriptive in nature and has been heavily oriented towards the specific policy problem of poverty and unemployment. The popularity of this theory has been fed by claims that it is nonneoclassical if not anti-neoclassical in substance, and that it could solve certain empirical puzzles in the poverty and unemployment data that purportedly could not be explained by the neoclassica literature.