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Team Human Capital and Worker Mobility

Ottorino Chillemi1; Benedetto Gui2

1 University of Padua · 2 University of Bari Aldo Moro

Journal of Labor Economics 1997

We discuss the concept of “team human capital” and study the renegotiation of labor compensation after team members privately observe their own reservation wage. As labor productivity can only be high if the number of quits does not exceed a threshold, decisions concerning acceptance of individual wage demands become interdependent. When a team is made up of salaried workers, a peculiar case of efficiency wage results. Moreover, inefficient team dissolution may occur. We then show that inefficiency is less likely to occur when team members form a partnership.

DOI
10.1086/209838
Volume
15 (4)
Pages
567-585
Language
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