We investigate the effect of profit sharing on establishments' hirings, layoffs, and quits. Our principal argument is that profit sharing increases wage flexibility and also aligns wages with a changing marginal revenue product. Because employment stability makes their human capital investment...

Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt an accelerated failure time model allowing for unobserved heterogeneity. Thereby we combine the...