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Employment Quotas for Women
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This paper extends the concept of a quota contract to account for discounting and for the possibility of infinitely many periods: a discounted quota fixes the number of expected discounted plays on each action. I first present a repeated principal-agent contracting environment in which menus of discounted quota contracts are optimal. I then recursively characterize the dynamics of discounted qu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: IDS Bulletin
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0265-5012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2010.00160.x