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題名 Bonding Shirking and Adverse Selection
作者 林忠正
關鍵詞 Shirking;Adverse selection;Bonding;Labor quality;Externalities
日期 2004-05
上傳時間 6-Jan-2009 15:23:06 (UTC+8)
摘要 The most serious theoretical difficulty regarding shirking-type efficiency wage models is that the introduction of the so-called bonding scheme eliminates involuntary unemployment. This paper develops a shirking-adverse selection model where the resulting key feature is that labor quality within an individual firm negatively depends on the average amount of bonds in the market. Under this situation, a larger bond required by an individual firm will lower the firm`s labor quality and will discourage it from bonding its employees to the limit. This adverse selection problem gives rise to the possibility that bonding cannot eventually eliminate involuntary unemployment. Moreover, a larger bond required by a firm also worsens the labor quality within all other firms (negative externalities). The presence of these negative externalities implies that the profit-maximizing size of bonds required by individual firms in the market may be too large from the viewpoint of social welfare. This opens a possible role for bonding legislation to achieve an equilibrium Pareto superior to the competitive equilibrium.
關聯 Economic Modelling,21(3),545-560
資料類型 article
dc.creator (作者) 林忠正zh_TW
dc.date (日期) 2004-05en_US
dc.date.accessioned 6-Jan-2009 15:23:06 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 6-Jan-2009 15:23:06 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 6-Jan-2009 15:23:06 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/22314-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) The most serious theoretical difficulty regarding shirking-type efficiency wage models is that the introduction of the so-called bonding scheme eliminates involuntary unemployment. This paper develops a shirking-adverse selection model where the resulting key feature is that labor quality within an individual firm negatively depends on the average amount of bonds in the market. Under this situation, a larger bond required by an individual firm will lower the firm`s labor quality and will discourage it from bonding its employees to the limit. This adverse selection problem gives rise to the possibility that bonding cannot eventually eliminate involuntary unemployment. Moreover, a larger bond required by a firm also worsens the labor quality within all other firms (negative externalities). The presence of these negative externalities implies that the profit-maximizing size of bonds required by individual firms in the market may be too large from the viewpoint of social welfare. This opens a possible role for bonding legislation to achieve an equilibrium Pareto superior to the competitive equilibrium.-
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dc.language enen_US
dc.language en-USen_US
dc.language.iso en_US-
dc.relation (關聯) Economic Modelling,21(3),545-560en_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Shirking;Adverse selection;Bonding;Labor quality;Externalities-
dc.title (題名) Bonding Shirking and Adverse Selectionen_US
dc.type (資料類型) articleen