Risk sharing and layoff risk in profit sharing

We show that if the employer is risk averse, however slightly, there is always a profit sharing contract that will Pareto-dominate the spot wage contract in the sense of pure risk sharing. The smaller is employer risk aversion, the narrower is the room for profit sharing. The higher the workers valu...

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Publié dans:Philippine Review of Economics and Business (formerly The Philippine Review of Business and Economics) Vol. XXXII, no. 1 (Jun. 1995), 65-78
Auteur principal: Fabella, Raul V.
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: 1995
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