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Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts,and Labor Market Performance
Macleod, W Bentley - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is tounderstand why every … jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularlyemployment protection law, while most economic analysis of the … structure of the common law and the evolution of employment protection law.The second part discusses the economic theory of …
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And I Will Try to Fix You:A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction withImplications for Flexible Employment Contracts
Chongvilaivan, Aekapol; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
with the designof employment contracts.... …
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Promotion Tournaments and Individual Performance Pay
Schöttner, Anja; Thiele, Veikko - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007
We analyze the optimal combination of promotion tournaments and individualperformance pay in an employment relationship …
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Contracting with Costly Tenants
Hubert, Franz - 1994
This paper analyses rental contracts in the housing market assu-ming asymmetric information about tenant related `service cost' andimperfect mobility. On the positive side it explains why long standingtenants tend to enjoy lower rents |the so called `tenure discount'. Onthe normative side, it...
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Rent Control: Academic Analysis and Public Sentiment
Hubert, Franz - Universität <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> / Chair … - 2003
...The first section takes a brief look at the history of rent controls. Initially mostmeasures were aimed at preventing landlords from reaping what was perceived tobe a ‘windfall profit’ resulting from some sort of unexpected emergency. It alsodemonstrates the diversity of rent control...
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Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms
Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The aim of this study is to evaluate employees’ productivity in relation to their contract status.This study uses (a … and productivity of two types of workers. Empirical results indicate thatemployees holding FTC are twice more productive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486991
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Fixed-term Employment, Work Organization and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from German Individual-Level Data.
Beckmann, Michael; Cornelißen, Thomas; Schauenberg, Bernd - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2009
The present paper examines the joint effect of fixed-term employment and work organizationon job satisfaction using …
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Oil Service Contracts - New Incentive Schemes to Promote Drilling Efficiency
Osmundsen, Petter; Sørenes, Terje; Toft, Anders - Universitetet <Stavanger> / School of Business …
Shortages of rigs and personnel have encouraged creativity in designing incentive contracts in thedrilling sector. In particular for oil service contracts, since those companies have the most directcontrol of drilling efficiency. A large variety of contract types are in use, including within...
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The rise of individual performance pay
Kvaløy, Ola; Olsen, Trond E. - Universitetet <Stavanger> / School of Business … - 2008
Why does individual performance pay seem to prevail in humancapital intensive industries? We present a model that may explainthis. In a repeated game model of relational contracting, we ana-lyze the conditions for implementing peer dependent incentive regimeswhen agents possess indispensable...
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Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz LabourMarket: Some Implications for the National PovertyReduction Strategy
Bernabè, Sabine; Kolev, Alexandre - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
This paper investigates the overlap between work and labour market status andidentifies those groups at risks of poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty...
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