This paper develops a theoretical framework for studying contract and enforcement in settings with nondurable trading …

This paper reports the analysis of a general model of contract in multi-period settings with both external and self …-enforcement. In the model, players alternately engage in contract negotiation and take individual actions. A notion of contractual … relationship. In particular, the model shows the importance of accounting for the selfenforced component of contract in the …

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 …

Workers in flexible staffing arrangements - including temporary agency, direct-hire temporary, on-call, and contract …

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 …