This paper examines the role that work incentives play in the determination of work hours. Following previous research by Lang (1989), we use a conventional efficiency wage model to analyze how firms respond to worker preferences regarding wage-hours packages. We find that when workers are...

Recently developed effort regulation models argue that labor markets are segmented because of differences in the technology of supervision across firms. primary jobs pay above market clearing wages because these jobs are difficult to monitor. Secondary jobs, in contrast, pose no monitoring...

A central hypothesis of the theory of labor market segmentation is that large establishments tend to establish circumstances of employment which foster employment stability. According to this view, large employers stabilize their labor relations by instituting job ladders, grievance procedures,...