Asymmetric information about workers' productivity as a cause for inefficient long working hours

Labour Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 727-747

  Sousa Poza, Alfonso ^a   Ziegler, Alexandre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Desired working time; Hours constraints; Working time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344513384     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(03)00016-2     Document Type: Article

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