This paper presents a gift-exchange labor market model in which workers are prone to exhaustion. Although norms of reciprocity and fairness indicate that firms and workers must exchange 'gifts' in the form of higher wages and higher effort respectively, these incentives are mitigated by the...

Kimball (1990a,b) established that income risk increases the marginal propensity to consume if and only if absolute prudence decreases. We characterize decreasing and increasing multivariate prudence and show that a multidimensional risk increases the marginal propensity to consume if and only...