Nonstationary Relational Contracts
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We develop a model of nonstationary relational contracts in order to study internal wage dynamics. Workers are heterogenous and each workers’ ability is both private information and fixed for all time. Learning therefore occurs within employment relationships. The inferences, however, are confounded by moral hazard: the distribution of output is determined by both the worker’s type and by his unobservable effort. Incentive provision is restricted by an inability to commit to long-term contracts. Relational contracts, which must be self-enforcing, must therefore be used. The wage dynamics in the optimal contract, which is pinned down by the tension between incentive provision and contractual enforcment, is intimately related to the learning effect. JEL: C73, D82, J41, L14
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