Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On
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- W. Bentley MacLeod & James M. Malcomson, 2023. "Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 179(3-4), pages 470-499.
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Keywords
relational contracts; informal enforcement; legal enforcement; incentives; private information;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- L14 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
- L24 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Contracting Out; Joint Ventures
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2023-03-06 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-HIS-2023-03-06 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HRM-2023-03-06 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2023-03-06 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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