Efficient Contracts with Costly Adjustment: Short-RUn Employment Determination for Airline Mechanics
This paper presents an empirical analysis of firm-specific employment and wage outcomes for mechanics in the domestic airline industry. A dynamic contracting model is presented that incorporates both costly employment adjustment and potential gaps between contract wage rates and the opportunity value of workers' time. The model gives a useful description of the employment-output linkage in the data, but is less successful in capturing the dynamic relation between employment, contract wage rates, and wage rates outside the airline industry.
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| Date of creation: | May 1986 |
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| Publication status: | published as Card, David. "Efficient Contracts with Costly Adjustment: Short-Run Employment Determination for Airline Mechanics," American Economic Review, Vol. 7 6, No. 5, December 1986, pp.1045-1071. |
| Handle: | RePEc:nbr:nberwo:1931 |
| Note: | LS |
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