Job security and long-term investment: an experimental analysis
Charness, Gary, Cobo-Reyes, Ramón, Jiménez Jiménez, Natalia 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9077-4824, Lacomba, Juan A. and Lagos, Francisco
(2017)
Job security and long-term investment: an experimental analysis.
European Economic Review, 95
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pp. 195-214.
ISSN 0014-2921
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(doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.03.014)
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Abstract
We investigate an experimental labor market setting in which we introduce the novel aspect that workers have the chance of investing money in a long-term project in order to increase their income. We find a strong relationship between what happens inside the labor market (worker's performance) and what happens outside the labor market (long-term investment). Contrary to the theoretical predictions with selfish preferences, we find that the mere presence of long-term projects acts as an effort-enforcement device; this effect seems to be driven by an increase in long-term employment relationships. In the other direction, long-term labor relationships seem to provide a safer environment for undertaking successful long-term projects. This article also considers three different types of experimental labor contracts. We find that performance-based dismissal barriers, whereby firms are required to retain workers if they have satisfied the effort level required by firms, lead to more long-term employment relationships and higher overall productivity. As theory predicts, the presence of renewable dismissal barriers makes it likely that workers will provide the desired effort level. Firms appear to correctly anticipate this, leading to greater social efficiency.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Areas: | A. > Business School > Economics |
| Item ID: | 25646 |
| Notes on copyright: | © 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V. This author's accepted manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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| Depositing User: | Natalia Jimenez Jimenez |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2018 12:24 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 20:52 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/25646 |
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