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Social evolution, corporate culture, and exploitation

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002

It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...

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Implicit contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment : thirty years on

MacLeod, William Bentley; Malcomson, James M. - 2023

with reflections on the future of relational contract theory and practice. …

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Escaping social pressure: fixed-term contracts in multi-establishment firms

Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve; Fontaine, François; … - 2021

We develop a simple theoretical model showing that, by adding to the adjustment costs associated with permanent contracts, local social pressure against dismissals creates an incentive for CEOs to rely on fixed-term contracts, in an attempt to escape social pressure. Using linked...

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Economic integration and labor market institutions : worker mobility, earnings risk, and contract structure

Schöb, Ronnie (contributor); Wildasin, David E. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Competition and relational contracts : the role of unemployment as a disciplinary device

Brown, Martin (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor); … - 2008

When unemployment prevails, relations with a particular firm are valuable for workers. As a consequence, a worker may adhere to an implicit agreement to provide high effort, even when performance is not third-party enforceable. But can implicit agreements - or relational contracts - also...

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Asymmetric information in the labor market, immigrants and contract menu

Kar, Saibal; Saha, Bibhas Chandra - 2011

Immigrant workers and their labor force participation in host countries have received critical attention in all concerned disciplines, principally owing to its strong implications for well-being of natives. The ageing population in many rich countries and several related and unrelated issues...

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The insider-outsider theory : a survey

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory … been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The first section deals with the theory, concerning how labor turnover … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

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Minimum wages and on-the-job training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2001

Becker's theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers …

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The effect of employment protection on worker effort : a comparison of absenteeism during and after probation

Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001

Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms' hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on worker effort. The goal of this paper is to fill in this gap and in particular to assess whether the provision of...

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A tale of two academic tracks

Asali, Muhammad - 2018

Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased effort needed to produce...

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