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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 …

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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans

Atal, Juan Pablo - 2017

We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...

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Contracts between Legal Persons

Kornhauser, Lewis A. - 2010

Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this … essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, and then use this framework to organize … the economics literature on contract. The title, Contracts between Legal Persons, limits the review to that part of …

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Double-Sided Moral Hazard in Job Displacement Insurance Contracts

Parsons, Donald O. - 2014

Job displacement insurance typically includes both unemployment benefits and lump-sum severance pay, and each has provoked policy concerns. Unemployment insurance concerns have centered on distorted job search/offer acceptance decisions by the worker, severance-induced firing cost concerns on...

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Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor

Chakraborty, Pavel; Rahul Singh; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2022

formal firms' hiring of contract workers, who do not carry stringent string costs. Overall, Chinese import competition …

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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Grund, Christian - 2015

The intention of "doing good for society" is regarded to be a crucial motivator for employees in the public sector in order for them to perform well. Recent research in the public sector literature calls for a deeper understanding of how this specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped....

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The Response to Dynamic Incentives in Insurance Contracts with a Deductible : Evidence from a Differences-in-Regression-Discontinuities Design

Klein, Tobias J. - 2020

We develop a new approach to quantify how patients respond to dynamic incentives in health insurance contracts with a deductible. Our approach exploits two sources of variation in a differences-in-regression-discontinuities design: deductible contracts reset at the beginning of the year, and...

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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Francesconi, Marco - 2006

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...

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Overtime Working and Contract Efficiency

Hart, Robert A. - 2013

We present a wage-hours contract designed to minimize costly job turnover given investments in on the job training …

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United But (Un-)Equal : Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract

Cremer, Helmuth - 2012

This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal...

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