Maida Petersitzke provides an overview of the literature on psychological contracts and presents a four-tier framework that details how organisations can systematically manage the psychological contracts of their employees. Dr. Maida Petersitzke promovierte bei Prof. Dr. Michel E. Domsch am...

In this paper I investigate to what extent firm-specific uncertainty affects the gain from indexation. Earlier studies have tried to explain wage rigidity by arguing that insiders face little layoff risk due to employment fluctuations caused by aggregate shocks. However, this analysis abstracts...

This paper considers a two-period optimal contracting model in which firms make new hires in the second period subject to the constraint that they cannot pay discriminate either against or in favour of the new hires. Under an assumption on the information available to workers, it is shown that...