Facing a stochastic market wage, which is independent of their own hiring policy, employersoffer contracts specifying fixed wage, revenue share and employment duration.In ongoing employment relations it depends on the treatment whether fixed wages canbe only increased or also decreased. Will the...

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union and the requirements of the Euro-pean Monetary Union (EMU) increase the pressure for flexibility of labor markets in both the old and the new EU member states. In the framework of EMU and in order to follow the requirements of the optimal currency...

On an otherwise symmetric oligopoly market with stochastic demands for heterogeneousproducts firms can either hire an employee or partner or buy therequired labor input on the labor market. Whereas the wage of hired labor doesnot depend on the realization of stochastic demand, the price of...

Sick pay is a common provision in most labor contracts. This paperemploys an experimental gift-exchange environment to explore two relatedquestions using both managers and undergraduates as subjects.First, do workers reciprocate generous sick pay with higher effort? Second,do firms benefit from...

Der Beitrag beginnt mit einer Annäherung an das Konzept derpostfordistischen Arbeitsregulation und plädiert dafür, die Regulation wissensintensiverDienstleistungsarbeit aus der Vertragsperspektive zu betrachten. Er setzt sich mitder Kategorie Wissensarbeit sowie der Verbreitung dieses...

Für diese Studie zur Scheinselbständigkeit (in Kooperation mit dem Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales) hat das IAB 4.500 Personen zu ihrer Erwerbstätigkeit und sozialen Lage befragt. Die quantitative Untersuchung greift zur Bestimmung von Scheinselbständigkeit auf ein Rechtsgutachten...

The present paper examines the joint effect of fixed-term employment and work organizationon job satisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel(GSOEP). Specifically, we analyze whether workers who are heterogeneous in terms of thetype of working contract...

Shortages of rigs and personnel have encouraged creativity in designing incentive contracts in thedrilling sector. In particular for oil service contracts, since those companies have the most directcontrol of drilling efficiency. A large variety of contract types are in use, including within...