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Overtime working and contract efficiency
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2013
We present a wage-hours contract designed to minimize costly job turnover given investments in on the job training …
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Optimal implicit contracts and the choice between layoffs and work sharing : a comment
FitzRoy, Felix R. - In: European journal of political economy 10 (1994) 3, pp. 613-614
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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 …
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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...
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How important is guaranteed or institutionalised overtime?
Bell, David N. F. (contributor); Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Annualised hours contracts : the way forward in labour market flexibility?
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - In: National Institute economic review (2003) 3, pp. 64-77
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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/10001502473
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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/10001486503
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Wages, hours and human capital over the life cycle
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 228 (2008) 5/6, pp. 446-464
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Wage-hours contracts, overtime working and premium pay
Hart, Robert A. (contributor); Ma, Yue (contributor) - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771694