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Equilibrium Unemployment Under Negotiated Profit Sharing
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
reduces equilibrium unemployment under circumstances with sufficiently ‘rigid’ labour market institutions, i.e. sufficiently …
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Hiring Standards and Market Clearing
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Consider a labour market with heterogeneous workers. Firms recruit workers by fixing a hiring standard and a wage offer simultaneously. A more demanding hiring standard necessitates a better wage offer in order to attract enough qualified applicants. As a result, an efficiency wage effect is...
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Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment
Eggert, Wolfgang; Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233732
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Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions
Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to … compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by … neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the em-ployment impact will depend on the nature of the unemployment …
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Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We analyze the following question associated with flexible outsourcing under imperfect domestic labour market: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? We show that in general profit sharing has a negative effect on low skilled wage and thus an outsourcing...
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The Role of Profit Sharing in Dual Labour Markets with Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We combine profit sharing for high-skilled workers and outsourcing of low-skilled tasks in partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, when the wage rate for low-skilled worker is set by a labor union, to analyze how the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing and...
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Profit Sharing and Training
Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the...
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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing across 47 Countries
Martins, Pedro S.; Yang, Yong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...
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Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption
Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Traditionally, it has been argued that profit sharing can increase employment and welfare because it lowers marginal labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show that profit sharing can also represent a Pareto-improvement if labour supply is excessive due to...
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Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and the wage level have an individual...
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