This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract … between twenty unions and plantations, (b) mandated to respect a state government notification stipulating a new minimum wage … raised the baseline wage by 30% but lowered marginal incentives, by shifting the existing piece rates to higher minimum …

determinants. In this paper, we stress random shocks to match productivity after the start of an employment relation. The … separation decisions to be analyzed separately from wage setting. The tenure profiles in wages implied by the model fit the … this model above the learning model. We develop a methodology to analyze the decomposition of shocks to match productivity …

This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as … ; strategic substitutability ; wage contracts ; contract duration …

this happens mostly in large firms. There are also sizeable long-run wage effects of the reform, well beyond the legal …

in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the … production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from Chamberlinian externalities. Firms may also protect workers from wage … risks through fixed wage contracts. This paper explores the relationships between firms' risks, workers' contracts, and the …