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==Law and economics== In [[contract theory]], researchers have studied whether workers should be allowed to waive their right to quit work, or whether the right to quit should be inalienable. Suppose that at date 1 a worker ''voluntarily'' signs a labour contract according to which the worker has to perform a task at date 2. At date 2, the worker no longer wants to perform the task (see the English contract law case [[Lumley v Wagner]] for a classic example). Would it be a form of ''involuntary'' servitude if the worker were forced by the courts to fulfill the contractual duties?<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pope|first=J. G.|date=2010|title=Contract, Race, and Freedom of Labor in the Constitutional Law of 'Involuntary Servitude'|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25681947|journal=The Yale Law Journal|volume=119|issue=7|pages=1474–1567|jstor=25681947|issn=0044-0094}}</ref> Müller and Schmitz (2021) have shown that from an economic efficiency point-of-view, in a static setting it can indeed be desirable to restrict the freedom of contract by making the right to quit inalienable. However, they also show that in a dynamic setting even the worker can be strictly better off when it is possible to contractually waive the right to quit.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Müller|first1=Daniel|last2=Schmitz|first2=Patrick W.|date=2021|title=The right to quit work: An efficiency rationale for restricting the freedom of contract|journal=Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization|language=en|volume=184|pages=653–669|doi=10.1016/j.jebo.2021.02.004|issn=0167-2681|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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