This paper provides a counterexample to some recent results of Grout (1984) which state that in a bargaining situation without binding wage agreements, the capital stock will be biased downwards. In a general equilibrium setting, this result may be reversed. The argument is built around a simple...

Within a hierarchical firm structure, the paper details how the composition of a worker's skills and the (non) observability of a worker's ability affect wage and promotion paths. Promotion takes place over time and is not efficient, as employers seek to exploit their inside information about a...

This paper develops a general repeated game model over arbitrary time domain (which includes continuous time behaviour). A player is committed at any point in time to history independent behaviour for a positive length of time. The length of time of commitment depends on the way the history...

This paper applies an equilibrium search to study the transition from schooling to work of US high school graduates. We consider the case where there is heterogeneity in firm productivity and the number of firm types is discrete. For this case the estimation problem is non-standard and the...