Wage-Tenure Contracts in a Frictional Labour Market: Firms' Stratgies for Recruitment and Retention.

This paper analyses the contract-posting equilibrium in a general equilibrium matching model of the labour market with on-the-job turnover. Privately optimal contracts have a rising wage-tenure profile, even when productivity is constant. The effect is to reduce equilibrium turnover; when jobs diffe...

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Main Author: Stevens, M
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Nuffield College (University of Oxford) 2000