Autorité et flexibilité: quand la théorie des options interroge

Camille Chaserant ()

No 2007-28, EconomiX Working Papers from University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX

Abstract: Continental Law defines the employment contract by the notion of « subordination » of the employee to the employer. Since Simon (1951), economics defines authority as the opportunity for the employer to postpone the selection of the tasks the employee should perform. This paper shows that these definitions do not fit. It proposes to use the framework of option pricing in order to interpret Simon’s model and to analyze the economic conceptions of authority, flexibility and renegotiation. When states are not verifiable, the economic concept of employment contract is a specific case of the broader set of sale contracts. It can be formalized as a spot contract paired with a call option on the worker tasks. Therefore, the economic formalization of the employment contract does not implement what lawyers define as an employment relationship. The economic formalization of the subordination notion used by Law is still to be done.

JEL-codes: D86 G12 J41 K31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2007
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