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Theories Of The Employment Relationship: Choosing Between Norms And Contracts, Michael L. Wachter
Theories Of The Employment Relationship: Choosing Between Norms And Contracts, Michael L. Wachter
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In this paper, I analyze three types of labor market relationships that are prevalent in the economy - the external labor market that exists outside of firms, and the union and nonunion employment relationships that exist inside firms. The parties' relationships in each of these markets are markedly different from one another with respect to their use of contracts versus norms, their enforcement mechanisms, and their reliance on external competitive market pressures. Why do these very distinct forms exist? This paper provides an answer to this question. To be successful, each of the structures has to resolve problems of match-specific …