oman has made tremendous progress in the last four decades on the back of rising oil prices and this has led to substantial economic activity in oil, construction, industries and services sectors creating an unprecedented demand for labor ranging from professionals, technical experts, educators, highly skilled people in all vocations to low and semi-skilled people including cleaners, gardeners,...

Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone substantial changes with the steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of permanent workers. This process has led to increased wage inequality, disc...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to enhance (i) insight in the relationship between different types of employment contract and the quality of working life, health and well-being, and (ii) our causal understanding of these relationships by comparing employees whose contract type changes across time. METHODS Analyses were based on a two-year prospective cohort study. Cross-sectional analyse...

Oman has made tremendous progress in the last four decades on the back of rising oil prices and this has led to substantial economic activity in oil, construction, industries and services sectors creating an unprecedented demand for labor ranging from professionals, technical experts, educators, highly skilled people in all vocations to low and semi-skilled people including cleaners, gardeners,...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the efficiency consequences of labor market rigidities. First, we estimate a production function that takes into account the duality of the Spanish labor market. We consider two types of labor input depending on the magnitude of the dismissal costs: a dynamic input determined by permanent contract workers and a variable, non dynamic input determined by fixed-...

We study incentive design in an agency setting when monitoring is costly, and this cost is endogenously determined by the contract structure. A firm employs multiple workers to obtain costly unverifiable information about an unknown state (a task) and report it to the firm. The firm uses peer-monitoring to incentivize workers by hiring multiple workers and conditioning payment upon how a worker...