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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 …
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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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Contracting out government services : best practice guidelines and case studies
Blondal, Jon - 1997
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Contracting Out Government Services : Best Practice Guidelines and Case Studies No. 20
1998
Contracting out government services is one of the principal market-type mechanisms applied in OECD Member countries. Its use is increasing in virtually all Member countries as the evidence mounts that contracting out can lead to efficiency gains while maintaining or increasing service quality...
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Contracting Out Government Functions and Services : Emerging Lessons from Post-Conflict and Fragile Situations
2009
This second volume of the Partnership for Democratic Governance Series investigates whether ‘contracting out’ core government functions and services has been conducive to capacity development. Each case study discusses the evidence and emerging lessons of contracting out in fragile and...
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