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Zero hours contracts and their growth
Farina, Egidio; Green, Colin; McVicar, Duncan - 2019
This paper studies the prevalence and nature of zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) in the UK labour market. The headline count of ZHC workers based on the Labour Force Survey has long underestimated and continues to underestimate the number of workers in ZHC or ZHC-like jobs. ZHC jobs and workers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001423
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Exit, voice or loyalty? : an investigation into mandated portability of front-loaded private health plans
Atal, Juan Pablo; Fang, Hanming; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2017
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703964
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United but (un-)equal : human capital, probability of divorce and the marriage contract
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2012
) use of marriage is affected by the possibility of divorce. -- post-marital education ; marriage contract ; divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674949
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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")
Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor);  … - 2006
example of how markets, as opposed to private negotiations, can be used to determine efficient contract terms. -- law and … economics ; incomplete contracts ; construction ; agency theory ; industry studies ; outsourcing ; procurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323165
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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2021
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803713
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Performance and risk taking under threat of elimination
Adams, Nathan R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017
We revisit the incentive effects of elimination tournaments with a fresh approach to identification, the results of which strongly support that performance improves under the threat of elimination and does so, but only in part, due to increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731884
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Why do firms pay an overtime premium?
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000
wage premium serves to achieve contract efficiency. For those weekly hours for which a premium is paid, worker compensation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335237
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Redundancy payments, incomplete labor contracts, unemployment and welfare
Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 1999
It is frequently argued that pure government-mandated severance transfers by the employer to the worker have neither employment nor welfare effect because they can be offset by private transfers from the worker to the employer. In this paper, using a dynamic search and matching model a la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318608
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Wages, hours and human capital over the life cycle
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000
We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the parties may separate (quits or layoffs) or continue rent accumulation and sharing, (c) a post...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325980
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Labor market efficiency, wages and employment when search frictions interact with intrafirm bargaining
Cahuc, Pierre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent … contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring … overemployment or to under-employment compared with the first-best. On the other hand, in Stole and Zwiebel's theory of intrafirm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401500