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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Market with Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - CESifo - 2009
We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm’s profit via profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the...
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Flexible Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - CESifo - 2008
We analyze the questions associated with flexible outsourcing both with committed and flexible profit sharing under imperfect domestic labour markets. How does profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium...
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Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - CESifo - 2010
a wage increasing effect via labor demand elasticity so that outsourcing and employment effects are also ambiguous. …
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The Effect of Employment Protection on Labor Productivity
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study … the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for small firms with less than eleven employees to exempt two workers from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261209
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Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Labour Market Adjustment under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - CESifo - 2002
can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real … rate regimes obey common employment adjustment thresholds. …
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - CESifo - 2007
We study the various consequences of and the incentives for outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour demand increases as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is a result consistent with existing empirical research. Furthermore, we show that a production mode with a...
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - CESifo - 2007
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled...
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Adjustment Costs, Inventories and Output
Danziger, Leif - CESifo - 2008
This paper analyzes the optimal adjustment strategy of an inventory-holding firm facing price- and quantity-adjustment costs in an inflationary environment. The model nests both the original menu-cost model that allows production to be costlessly adjusted, and the later model that includes...
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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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