We study ex post outsourcing of production in an imperfectly discriminating contest, interpreted here as a research … tournament or a procurement contest for being awarded some production contract. We find that the possibility of outsourcing …, outsourcing reduces the procurement costs of inducing a given level of effort if the contest organizer can collect entry fees …

We study the various consequences of and the incentives for outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour … demand increases as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is a result consistent with existing empirical research …. Furthermore, we show that a production mode with a higher proportion of outsourcing activity reduces the negotiated wage in the …

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 decreasing character. However due to labour union determination of effort …

We analyze the questions associated with flexible outsourcing both with committed and flexible profit sharing under … imperfect domestic labour markets. How does profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between … outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment, when profit sharing is also a part of the compensation schemes in …

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … negative effect on outsourcing …

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 sharing after wage formation. What is the relationship between outsourcing …