The relationship between work and family has long been the subject of lively debate in the political, public, and academic arena. Employers in the hospitality industry should carefully consider the work–family balance of their employees because maintaining a good balance will result in lower...

Research into accounting risk-return relations largely relied on reference-based models of managerial choice. This focus ignores other explanations that may contribute to our understanding. Our study extends prior research by incorporating agency theory and implicit contracts theory into models...

Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991), this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out separately for males and females with individual-level data taken from the...

This paper tests whether wages in Japan’s labor market are determined by current or past labor market conditions. The empirical results are consistent with a model suggesting that labor market mobility may be limited and costly in Japan for men.

This paper considers the relationships between the psychological contract and the propensity to create, share and utilise organisational knowledge, thereby developing potential organisational capacity. It is widely accepted that organisational capacity will be affected by the way that knowledge...

Proper pricing and risk assessment of implicit options in life insurance contracts has gained substantial attention in recent years, which is reflected in a growing literature in this field. In this article, we first present the different contract designs in Europe and the United States and...