Involuntary Unemployment in Dynamic Contract Equilibria.

In this paper the set of bilateral wage contracts in a dynamic model with observable effort is characterized. Our first result demonstrates that bond payments and severance pay do not increase the size of the set of incentive compatible contracts. Second, we show that unobservable effort can lead to...

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Những tác giả chính: MacLeod, W, Malcomson, J
Định dạng: Working paper
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Department of Economics (Queen's University) 1986
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Tóm tắt:In this paper the set of bilateral wage contracts in a dynamic model with observable effort is characterized. Our first result demonstrates that bond payments and severance pay do not increase the size of the set of incentive compatible contracts. Second, we show that unobservable effort can lead to voluntary unemployment.