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We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
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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 sharing after wage formation. What is the relationship between outsourcing … profit sharing before the wage formation, higher outsourcing decreases wage whereas profit sharing has an ambiguous effect …
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other industries? In the case of committed profit sharing, outsourcing cost increases wage. Optimal flexible profit sharing … is smaller than in the absence of outsourcing, but outsourcing cost and wage will have ambiguous effect on optimal … wage effect. For equilibrium unemployment the effects of outsourcing cost and profit sharing are ambiguous both in case of …
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