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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418921
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Portfolios of Exchange Relationships: An Empirical Investigation of an Online Marketplace for IT Services
Radkevitch, Radkevitch, U.L.; van Heck, van Heck, H.W.G.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
Small firms face distinct problems and opportunities when procuring IT resources. Whereas previous work focused at the level of firm or buyer-supplier dyad, we address portfolios of buyer-supplier relationships at an online marketplace for IT services. Using the portfolio approach, we develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731207
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Choosing between Auctions and Negotiations in Online B2B Markets for IT Services: The Effect of Prior Relationships and Performance
Radkevitch, Radkevitch, U.L.; van Heck, van Heck, H.W.G.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
The choice of contract allocation mechanism in procurement affects such aspects of transactions as information exchange between buyer and supplier, supplier competition, pricing and, eventually, performance. In this study we investigate the buyer’s choice between reverse auctions and bilateral...
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Does Contract Complexity Limit Opportunities? Vertical Organization and Flexibility
Pennings, Enrico - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
The vertical organization of production entails a range of make-or-buy decisions of intermediate goods that are influenced by the difficulty of writing contracts with a potential supplier. When contracting causes high transaction costs, a firm can decide to vertically integrate the production of...
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Inkoop, Leveranciers en Innovatie: Van VOC tot Space Shuttle
Wynstra, Wynstra, J.Y.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
Finn Wynstra is professor by special appointment in Purchasing and Supply Management at RSM Erasmus University, on behalf of the Dutch Association for Purchasing Management (NEVI) and the 'Vereniging Trustfonds EUR'. He studied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and conducted his PhD...
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