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The Advantage of Employing Workers With Short Time Perspectives
June 1, 2003 • Working Papers • By Thomas Burkle
Abstract This paper examines labor contracts as a form of insurance contracts. It assumes that workers are risk averse with the time perspective (or planning period) of a worker combining…
