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Zero-Hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2021
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) – a contract that exempts employers from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882555
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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2022
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the … reactions to this contract. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359368
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The Labour Market and the Job Miracle
Heckman, James J.; Agell, Jonas; Gertser, Florian; … - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 2, pp. 29-48
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The use of flexible measures to cope with economic crises in Germany and Brazil
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Pastore, José - 2011
standard vs. non-standard contracts. Whereas internal flexibility via shorter working time was a dominant mode of adjustment … during the 2008-09 crisis in the German manufacturing sector, in Brazil such plant-level flexibility to avoid dismissals was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286863
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Explaining the German Employment Miracle in the Great Recession The Crucial Role of Temporary Working Time Reductions
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Lindner, Fabian; Sturn, Simon - 2013
This paper investigates the reasons for the exceptionally robust performance of the German labour market during the Great Recession. While GDP dropped by more than five per cent in 2009, employment remained constant and started to increase soon after. We compare this recession to other major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460536
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Central Bank Conservatism and Labor Market Reform
Jordahl, Henrik; Laséen, Stefan - 1999
How does central bank conservatism affect labor market reform? In this paper we examine the economic forces at work. An increase in conservatism triggers two opposite effects. It reduces the inflation bias of discretionary monetary policy and hence the benefits of a reform. It also increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321824
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Traditionelle und moderne Formen der Arbeitszeitflexibilität: Arbeitsangebots- und -nachfrageseitige Faktoren von Überstunden und Arbeitszeitkonten
Zapf, Ines - 2016
Overtime work and working-time accounts are important instruments of working-time flexibility in establishments to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433961
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Wages, Hours and Human Capital over the Life Cycle
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000
We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the parties may separate (quits or layoffs) or continue rent accumulation and sharing, (c) a post...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262355
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Wage-hours contracts, overtime working and premium pay
Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2008
This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime … premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role of firm-specific human capital and that … explores problems of contract efficiency in the face of information asymmetries between the firm and the worker. We first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269147
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Indenture as a self-enforced contract device: an experimental test
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - 2009
We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276832