Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86327 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 04-115/1
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper explores the meaning and implications of the desire by workers for impact. We find that this impact motive can make a firm in a competitive labor market face an upward-sloping supply curve of labor, lead workers with the same characteristics but at different firms to earn different wages, may alleviate the hold-up problem in firm-specific investment, can make it profitable for an employer to give workers autonomy in effort or task choice, and can propagate shocks to unemployment.
Subjects: 
impact
monopsonistic behavior
wage differentials
hold-up problem
contracts
autonomy
JEL: 
J3
J4
M5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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