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Does international outsourcing really lower workers’ income?
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2010
’s bargaining power is sufficiently high (low) and outsourcing will increase workers' income in the second case. For the amount of … optimal international outsourcing, we find that it is in a pure wage bargaining system positively (negatively) affected by a … sufficiently high (low) labor union's bargaining power, while in a wage and profit share bargaining system, a higher union …
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Strategic outsourcing, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment
Koskela, Erkki (contributor); König, Jan (contributor) - 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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Variable payment schemes and productivity : do individual-based schemes really have a stronger influence than collective ones?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2023
While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm performance than collective ones. This also applies to an index of best management practices...
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The role of profit sharing in a dual labour market with flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki (contributor); König, Jan (contributor) - 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 - 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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The role of profit sharing in dual labour markets with flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 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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Equilibrium unemployment under negotiated profit sharing
Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Stenbacka, Rune (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Profit sharing, credit market imperfections and equilibrium unemployment
Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Stenbacka, Rune (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Profit sharing and relative consumption
Goerke, Laszlo - 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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