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Outsourcing, labor market pooling, and labor contracts

Journal of Urban Economics, 2011
This paper considers the interaction between input sharing and labor market pooling in urban areas. In particular, it examines the impact of the size of a city and business risks on the organizational structures of firms located in urban agglomerations, and it also discusses the impact of organizational structure on incentives to insure workers against
P. Picard, D. Wildasin
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Oligopsonistic Landlords, Segmented Labor Markets, and the Persistence of Tied‐Labor Contracts

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002
AbstractThis article examines contractual labor arrangements in agrarian economies that persist as a consequence of market power on the part of landlords faced with output uncertainty. We show that a segmented labor market characterized by tied‐labor contracts and involuntary unemployment in the lean season are optimal as compared to a labor hiring ...
Arnab K Basu
exaly   +3 more sources

Temporary Contracts and Work—Family Balance in a Dual Labor Market

ILR Review, 2013
A well-established finding in the literature is that self-employment enables mothers to accommodate work and family needs better than when they are engaged in organizational employment. With this result in mind, the authors investigate within a dual system of job protection if women under temporary contracts face greater work-family conflicts than ...
Rocio Bonet, C. Cruz, Dani Kranz, Rachida Justo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Testing Intertemporal Substitution, Implicit Contracts, and Hours Restriction Models of the Labor Market Using Micro Data

American Economic Review, 2002
John C. Ham, Kevin T. Reilly
exaly   +2 more sources

Labor Market Regulation Under Self-Enforcing Contracts

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
AbstractThis paper examines the effects of various labor market institutions (policies) on the welfare of workers and employers. We consider self‐enforcing contracts between risk‐averse workers and risk‐neutral employers in a labor market with search frictions.
Avcioglu, Sahin, Karabay, Bilgehan
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Labor market contracting and wage dispersion

Journal of Labor Research, 1988
This paper uses a variety of data sources to document the effect of long-term contracts (LTCs) on wage dispersion. The paper first shows that LTCs are responsible for the decrease in wage dispersion observed as labor markets tighten; absent LTCs (as in most other advanced nations outside North America), this effect does not exist.
Sanford M. Jacoby, Maury Y. Pearl
openaire   +1 more source

Labor Market Immobility and Incentive Contract Design

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Research suggests that restricted labor mobility discourages managers from investing in human capital and reduces firm value. However, whether firms re-incentivize managers to mitigate its adverse effects remains unexplored. We find that after the adoption of the inevitable disclosure doctrine (an exogenous negative shock to managers’ mobility), firms ...
Chen Lin, Lai Wei, Nan Yang
openaire   +1 more source

Implicit contracts in the Japanese labor market

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 1988
Abstract This paper tests the implicit contract hypothesis using data in the Japanese labor market. The empirical results suggest that implicit contract relations in real terms are not rejected in the Japanese labor market. This finding gives evidence (i) that a certain degree of observed wage rigidity reflects the outcome of efficient risk-sharing ...
Hiroshi Osano, Touru Inoue
openaire   +1 more source

Incentive Contracts and Institutional Labor Market Design

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This paper analyzes a labor market, where firms offer workers incentive contracts and make decisions about irreversible capital investments. The state authority regulates the institutional framework by choosing the level of unemployment benefits and the workers' bargaining power. Our results suggest that unemployment benefits reduce workers' incentives
Martina Nikolaeva Gogova, Jens Uhlenbrock   +1 more
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Labor market reforms and allocative efficiency in Italy

, 2020
This paper examines the extent to which labour market reforms of temporary contracts introduced in Italy at the beginning of the century influenced aggregate productivity via their e↵ects on the eciency of resource allocation.
Nicolò Gnocato, Francesca Modena, C. Tomasi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source