contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and … costs and quality, for services without severe contracting problems. The picture is more mixed for services with tougher …

seminal study, Lazear (1990) found that contract avoidance of severance pay firing costs was theoretically simple – a bonding …, formal measures of severance-induced firing costs and hiring costs are derived. Firing costs are, it turns out …, systematically less than benefit generosity alone would imply. Moreover their interrelationship with hiring costs, often employed in …

paper, we show that frictions in the labour market leading to monitoring costs tend to reduce the growth of the firm via two …

We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to … and commuting costs because firms need to compensate the transportation cost difference between the employed and …

desirable and the usual profit-shifting objectives of an export subsidy are mitigated, perhaps completely, because it might lead … wage flexibility, an outsourcing tax cannot be justified and the profit-shifting motive is the same as in a model without …

choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited …