Profit sharing, worker effort, and double-sided moral hazard in an efficiency wage model

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-93

  Chang, Juin Jen ^a,b   Lai, Ching Chong ^a,c,d   Lin, Chung Cheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Double moral hazard; Efficiency wages; Profit sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037834807     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-5967(02)00009-4     Document Type: Article

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