Download or read book A Simple Test of the Shirking Model written by Alan Manning and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using on data from the 1987/88 UK Survey of Incomes In and Out of Work, proposes a simple test of one prominent version of the efficiency wage model, the shirking model of Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984) which focuses directly on the issue of whether involuntary unemployment exists or not.