An Uncertain Wage Contract Model with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard
Author(s) -
Xiulan Wang,
Yanfei Lan,
Jiao Wang
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of applied mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.307
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1687-0042
pISSN - 1110-757X
DOI - 10.1155/2014/282867
Subject(s) - moral hazard , adverse selection , unobservable , wage , profit (economics) , private information retrieval , microeconomics , economics , work (physics) , selection (genetic algorithm) , productivity , business , labour economics , computer science , incentive , econometrics , mechanical engineering , computer security , engineering , macroeconomics , artificial intelligence
This paper considers a wage contract design problem faced by an employer (he) who employs an employee (she) to work for him in labor market. Since the employee's ability that affects the productivity is her private information and cannot be observed by the employer,it can be characterized as an uncertain variable. Moreover, the employee's effort is unobservable to the employer, and the employee can select her effort level to maximize her utility. Thus, an uncertain wage contract model with adverse selection and moral hazard is established to maximize the employer's expected profit. And the model analysis mainly focuses on the equivalent form of the proposed wage contract model and the optimal solution to this form. The optimal solution indicates that both the employee's effort level and the wage increase with the employee's ability. Lastly, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed model
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