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A note on labor contracts with private information and household production


Abstract: A classic result in the theory of implicit contract models with asymmetric information is that ?underemployment? results if and only if leisure is an inferior good. We introduce household production into the standard implicit contract model and show that we can have underemployment at the same time that leisure is a normal good.

Keywords: labor contracts; Employment (Economic theory);

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Part of Series: Staff Report

Publication Date: 1991

Number: 131