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Flexible outsourcing, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2008

outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment, when profit sharing is also a part of the compensation schemes in … wage effect. For equilibrium unemployment the effects of outsourcing cost and profit sharing are ambiguous both in case of … the absence or presence of outsourcing and in this case lower outsourcing cost will decrease unemployment. …

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The role of profit sharing in a dual labour market with flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2009

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 - 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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Profit sharing, wage formation and flexible outsourcing under labor market imperfection

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 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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Labour market reforms and outcomes in Estonia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Egert, Balazs - 2012

The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered … would facilitate the structural transformation and reduce the long-term unemployment rate. Linking increases in unemployment …

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Regulation, Institutions and Aggregate Investment: New Evidence from OECD Countries

Egert, Balazs - 2017

of (legal) institutions alters the overall impact of regulations on capital deepening: better institutions reduce the …

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The Quantification of Structural Reforms in OECD Countries: A New Framework

Egert, Balazs; Gal, Peter - 2017

This document describes and discusses a new supply side framework that quantifies the impact of structural reforms on per capita income in OECD countries. It presents the overall macroeconomic impacts of reforms by aggregating over the effects on physical capital, employment and productivity...

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The Contribution of Human Capital and Its Policies to Per Capita Income in Europe and the OECD

Egert, Balazs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2020

This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age...

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A New Macroeconomic Measure of Human Capital Exploiting PISA and PIAAC: Linking Education Policies to Productivity

Egert, Balazs; de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Turner, David - 2022

This paper provides a new measure of human capital using PISA and PIAAC surveys, and mean years of schooling. The new measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population and the corresponding mean years of schooling...

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Investment in OECD Countries: A Primer

Egert, Balazs - 2021

Aggregate business investment is a major driver of long-term economic growth. It has been weak in many advanced economies over the last decade, partly due to cyclical demand-side effects. Nevertheless, a number of structural factors and policies interact with and have an effect on business...

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