Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment.

This paper characterizes all outcomes supportable by implicit employment contracts of the most general form when employee's performance is not public information. A strictly positive economic surplus must result from employment, the form of contract depending on how this surplus is divided betw...

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Main Authors: MacLeod, W, Malcomson, J
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (Queen's University) 1986