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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 …

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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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Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy

Almenberg, Johan; Gerdes, Christer - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, anexample of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making.We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy arenegatively correlated in a...

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Thresholds in the Process of InternationalFinancial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalizationand its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literaturehas not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financialintegration. Indeed,...

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Not So Lucky Any More:CEO Compensation in Financially Distressed Firms

Kang, Qiang; Mitnik, Oscar A. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

There is a debate on whether executive pay reflects rent extraction due to “managerialpower” or is the result of arms-length bargaining in a principal-agent framework. In this paperwe offer a test of the managerial power hypothesis by empirically examining the CEOcompensation of U.S. public...

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Using the Helmert-Transformation toReduce Dimensionality in a Mixed Model:Application to a Wage Equation withWorker and Firm Heterogeneity

Nilsen, Øivind A.; Raknerud, Arvid; Skjerpen, Terje - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

A model for matched data with two types of unobserved heterogeneity is considered – onerelated to the observation unit, the other to units to which the observation units are matched.One or both of the unobserved components are assumed to be random. This mixed modelallows identification of the...

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