Team Production in Competitive Labor Markets with Adverse Selection

Ferdinand von Siemens and Michael Kosfeld

No 4638, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team’s performance and therefore on their colleagues’ productivity. We study the effects of such externalities in a competitive labor market if workers have private information on their productivity. We find that in any competitive equilibrium there must be Pareto-efficient separation of workers according to their productivity. We further find that externalities facilitate equilibrium existence, where under a particular condition on workers’ indifference curves even arbitrarily small externalities guarantee equilibrium existence.

Keywords: team production; competition; adverse selection; externality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 D82 J30 L22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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