While most working people are in employment, there is little realisation that this relationship is inefficient and inequitable due to mis-aligned incentives - employers, as residual claimants, have an incentive to elicit greater than socially optimal effort from workers, thus generating conflict...

Mónica Santana and Ramón Valle-Cabrera's wide-ranging study explores vital research and industrial issues that are central to understanding the concepts of the Future of Work and address key challenges in this evolving area of debate.A global cast of leading research specialists provide...