Team production in competitive labor markets with adverse selection:

Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and therefore on their colleagues' productivity. We study...

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Main Authors: Siemens, Ferdinand von 1973- (Author), Kosfeld, Michael 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Munich CESifo 2014
Series:CESifo working paper 4638 : Category 4, Labour markets
Links:http://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/search/result.html?main.query=4638
Summary:Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and therefore on their colleagues' productivity. We study the effects of such externalities in a competitive labor market if workers have private information on their productivity. We find that in any competitive equilibrium there must be Pareto-efficient separation of workers according to their productivity. We further find that externalities facilitate equilibrium existence, where under a particular condition on workers' indifference curves even arbitrarily small externalities guarantee equilibrium existence
Item Description:Literaturverz. S.33-36
Physical Description:36 S. graph. Darst.