In April 2016, Professor Orly Lobel delivered the 12th Annual Pemberton Lecture at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Lobel asks, what is the future of employment and labor law protections when reality is rapidly transforming the ways we work? What is the status of gig work and what are the...

In this paper we develop a simple model in which some employees are thieves and will steal from their employers if given the opportunity. Firms can counter this threat through practices such as locking employees inside their factories or requiring them to submit to searches. We show that the...