Seniority and efficiency
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Seniority as an endogenous factor in compensation and employment arrangements between a firm and its labor pool is analyzed. Results show that seniority emerges as a first-best feature in cases of transitory shocks where efficient reallocation of labor is necessary. Conditions introduced in the model include nonseparable preferences over time and learning-by-doing, which imply that with seniority comes an increase in efficiency which promotes productivity despite the higher costs incurred for maintaining senior workers.
Publication Name: Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0347-0520
Year: 1992
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Just, unjust, and just-cause dismissals
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An efficiency wage model, which allowed just and unjust dismissals in employment, showed that a just-cause law improved job security and workers' welfare. It also showed greater efficiency and growth of firms because of reduced incidences of hiring and firing. The model used was derived from Shapiro and Stiglitz' one-period model of analyzing the effects of just-cause employment laws by determining a firm's profit maximizing security and wages measures to workers' opportunity costs.
Publication Name: Journal of Macroeconomics
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0164-0704
Year: 1997
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