Chasing the carrot - actual working hours of fixed-term employees

Fixed-term contracts can serve as a screening device to reveal the true ability of workers. To achieve promotion to a permanent position, fixed-term employees have an incentive to prove themselves by providing higher effort than competing co-workers by means of longer working hours. Applying fixed e...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Applied economics letters 2019-08, Vol.26 (14), p.1148-1152
Hauptverfasser:	Bossler, Mario, Grunau, Philipp
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Colleagues Economic analysis Economic theory Economics effort Employees Fixed-term contracts incentives Labor market Workers Working hours
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