TY - RPRT AU - MacLeod, W. Bentley AU - Malcomson, James TI - Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On PY - 2023/Jan/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 15881 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15881 AB - "Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our most highly cited work. We briefly review the development of this paper and of our subsequent related work, and conclude with reflections on the future of relational contract theory and practice. KW - incentives KW - legal enforcement KW - informal enforcement KW - relational contracts KW - private information ER -