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Job displacement insurance typically includes both unemployment benefits and lump-sum severance pay, and each has provoked policy concerns. Unemployment insurance concerns have centered on distorted job search/offer acceptance decisions by the worker, severance-induced firing cost concerns on...
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We develop a new approach to quantify how patients respond to dynamic incentives in health insurance contracts with a deductible. Our approach exploits two sources of variation in a differences-in-regression-discontinuities design: deductible contracts reset at the beginning of the year, and...
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We present a wage-hours contract designed to minimize costly job turnover given investments in on the job training …
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In this paper we adapt the model of MacLeod (2007) to provide one way to formally implement some of Williamson's ideas regarding the effect of transactions costs upon employment relationship. We then explore the empirical implications of this model with a data set that measures job...
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can select one of three agents, while in a third treatment an agent may choose between the contract menus offered by two … correspondence between the theoretical predictions and the contract menus actually chosen in each treatment. There is, however, a … tendency to choose more 'generous' (and more efficient) contract menus over time. Competition leads to a substantially higher …
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compensated ex ante by a higher wage when agreeing to a long term contract. Using data from the German "Bundesliga", our model …
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This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime … premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that … explores problems of contract efficiency in the face of information asymmetries between the firm and the worker. We first …
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analytically solve for the optimal contract when the agent has exponential utility. We find that the Pareto frontier shifts out as …
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Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)'s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore realistic aspects of trading relationships such as informal agreements and ex post...
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reveal a new behavioral force: ex ante competition legitimizes the terms of a contract, and aggrievement and shading occur … mainly about outcomes within the contract …
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