Is a New Employment Contract Needed?

Nurse Job Satisfaction: Is a Revised Conceptual Framework Needed?

Background and Objectives: Job satisfaction is a critical factor in attracting and retaining nurses. Although many studies have dealt with nurses’ job satisfaction, rapid transformation of the community and health systems can alter the factors influencing this issue, hence calling for continuous monitoring of job satisfaction as perceived by nurses. Built on this necessity, the present study wa...

China's new Labour Contract Law: No harm to employment?

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In January 2008, China adopted a new labour contract law. This new law represents the ...

Contract Employment as a Worker Discipline Device†

Fixed-term contract employment has increasingly replaced regular open-ended employment as the predominant form of employment notably in developing countries. Guided by factory-level evidence showing nuanced patterns of co-movements of regular and contract wages, we propose a two-tiered task based model with self-enforcing contracts in which firms allocate complex tasks to long term employees at...

The Employment Contract as a Lottery

The existing principal-agent models either assume that the agent is risk-averse or risk-neutral. However, in reality people appear to value insurance in some situations while enjoy risk in others. This paper revisits the standard principal-agent problem under the assumption that the agent’s preferences can be described by a utility function proposed by Friedman and Savage (1948) to capture the ...

Why a New Index Is Needed