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ABSTRACT:
Many authors have discussed an apparent shift to a new employment contract characterized by less commitment between employer and employee coupled with closer ties between wages within the enterprise and those in the external labor market. We study the issue of when people in the U.S. and Canada feel pay cuts are fair, comparing our results with those of Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler (1986). In contrast to much previous discussion, we find no evidence of increasing acceptance of pay cuts--a measure of whether external, not internal, labor markets are considered fair. These results suggest that new organizational forms might do well to preserve some of the features of the "old" employment contract.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Gary Chaness and David I. Levine, "Changes in the Employment Contract? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment" (November 19, 1999). Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Working Paper Series. Paper iirwps-070-99.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/iir/iirwps/iirwps-070-99