Limited Commitment Models of the Labor Market

Jonathan Thomas () and Tim Worrall ()

No CESifo Working Paper No. 2109, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo Group Munich

Abstract: We present an overview of models of long-term self-enforcing labor contracts in which risk sharing is the dominant motive for contractual solutions. A base model is developed which is sufficiently general to encompass the two-agent problem central to most of the literature, including variable hours. We consider two-sided limited commitment and look at its implications for aggregate labor market variables. We consider the implications for empirical testing and the available empirical evidence. We also consider the one-sided limited commitment problem for which there exists a considerable amount of empirical support.

Keywords: labor contracts; self-enforcing contracts; unemployment; business cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 J41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007

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