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opportunism, remains the principle underlying all of contract law and company law." Ce texte explore l'emploi de l …
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reasonably well-developed economic literature. Reciprocal gain, the founding concept of contract and of extensions such as the … of contract law. Yet human nature being what it is, individuals may be tempted by opportunistic acts and their potential …
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I examine the case where fulfillment of a contractual commitment is only imperfectly verifiable and ask whether the court should then "tell the truth"" regarding the action in dispute. I show that truth seeking does not maximize the expected surplus from contractual relationships. From the...
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We examine why employers use temporary agency and contract company workers and the implications of these practices for … outsourcing. Adverse effects on compensation are clearest when companies substitute agency temporaries or contract company workers …, organizations only contract out management functions or utilize agency temporaries for brief periods of time, with little direct …
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In this paper, we consider a knowledge accumulation problem within an organization. We depart from the human capital theory initiated by Becker (1962, 1964) and consider an organization that cannot prevent the worker from quitting and using the knowledge outside the organization. We study how...
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Workers in flexible staffing arrangements - including temporary agency, direct-hire temporary, on-call, and contract …
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Using a unique panel data set of privatised cement firms in Turkey, we test the hypothesis that privatisation and firm … relationship between privatisation and firm performance, we find that: i) private sector increases the output in the medium … of labour growth on productivity is less severe during the privatised period, and iv) the likelihood of the privatisation …
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of which privatisation of key government assets was a major component. Government owned banks and insurance offices were … financial sector that has influenced the outcome of the privatisation process in the financial sector. …
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The macroeconomic impact of privatisation on growth in Australia is investigated in a growth accounting framework … before and during privatisation. …
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