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Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?

Koskela, Erkki - 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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Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing

Monteiro, Natália Pimenta - 2010

We analyse – theoretically and empirically – how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked employer-employee dataset from Portugal, covering a large number of corporate ownership changes...

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Profit Sharing and Training

Kraft, Kornelius - 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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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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Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing Under Labor Market Imperfection

Koskela, Erkki - 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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Profit Sharing and Workplace Productivity : Does Teamwork Play a Role?

Long, Richard J. - 2014

The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and...

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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Market with Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2021

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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Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2016

Despite the "1/N problem" associated with profit sharing, the empirical literature finds that sharing profits with workers has a positive impact on work team and firm performance. We examine one possible resolution to this puzzle by observing that, although the incentive to work harder under...

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Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

Koskela, Erkki - 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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The Role of Profit Sharing in Dual Labour Markets with Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki; Koenig, Jan - 2021

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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