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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Marketwith Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour … sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and wages?We show …
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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI:Recent Advances and Research Gaps
Pflüger, Michael; Blien, Uwe; Möller, Joachim; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advanceswhich pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under thefollowing (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing-up the value added chain and the turnto a task-based...
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Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and FlexibleOutsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor unionto analyze how does the … implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and thebargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and …
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Outsourcing and Technological Change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing inthe firm’s expectation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360607
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly andImperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Marketsunder Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree oftax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360617
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision ofPublic Input Goods in an Economy withOutsourcing and Unemployment
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
abroad, and where outsourcing issubstitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing.Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …, the government may reduce the amount ofresources spent on outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good …
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Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production
Antràs, Pol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the implementation of the theory in open-economy environments and its implications for the international organization of production and the structure of international trade flows. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320400
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Global Sourcing of a Complex Good
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Zhang, Lijun - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We analyze a firm that produces a final good from multiple intermediates that can each be sourced domestically or from a low-wage country. The model explicitly incorporates that sourcing decisions of intermediates are interdependent. Equilibrium predictions depend crucially on a key modeling...
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INFORMAL WAGE AND FORMAL SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY : THEORY AND EVIDENCES FROM INDIA
Maiti, Dibyendu; Marjit, Sugata - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
We express a doubt on the conventional wisdom namely, of a positive relationship between wage and productivity, of a formal sector firm in a developing economy where the firm can either go for subcontracting to the informal sector to minimize wage cost along with apprehension of extra-legal cost...
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Firm Heterogeneity in the Choice of Offshoring : Evidence from Korean Manufacturing Firms
Hyun, Hea-Jung - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Using firm-level data on offshoring of Korean manufacturers, the paper examines the relationship between firm heterogeneity and the probability of adopting offshoring. The results of the paper suggest that firm productivity may not be an important determinant for Korean firms offshoring...
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