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Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption
Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show that profit sharing can also represent a …. If the rise in profit income keeps total income constant, profit sharing will have no income but only a substitution …
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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Market with Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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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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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Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish … and profit share. We find that in the first case outsourcing will reduce (increase) workers' income, if the labor union …’s bargaining power is sufficiently high (low) and outsourcing will increase workers' income in the second case. For the amount of …
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Strategic Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyze the following questions associated with outsourcing and profit sharing under imperfect labour markets. How does strategic outsourcing influence wage formation, profit sharing and employee effort when firms commit to optimal profit sharing before wage formation or decide for profit...
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Determinants of Profit Sharing in the Finnish Corporate Sector
Arranz-Aperte, Laura; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This study investigates the role of factors that determine individual employees’ and firms’ participation in profit sharing schemes. Using a large panel data of Finnish employees for the period 1996-2000 we analyse individual and workplace characteristics that make firms employ profit...
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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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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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Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms
Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...
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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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