We combine profit sharing for high-skilled workers and outsourcing of low-skilled tasks in partly imperfect dual … of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing and low-skilled labour market outcome. Profit sharing has a positive … effect on the low-skilled wage and thus an outsourcing enhancing character. Profit sharing for high-skilled workers increases …

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

, decrease, or do not change in the period subsequent to adoption of profit sharing, relative to establishments that do not adopt … profit sharing. Our research contributes to knowledge by utilizing longitudinal analysis to assess the effects of profit … may affect these results. On average, employees in Canadian establishments that adopted profit sharing during 1999 …

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 returns to training, 3) a common payment for the whole workforce leads to …

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 relative consumption effects. Mandatory profit sharing reduces wages …

the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? We show that in general profit sharing has a negative … a constant effort level will result so that in this case firm's optimal choice of profit sharing is zero …

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 … wage effect of profit sharing is ambiguous. There is a wage decreasing substitution effect, but on the other hand, there is …

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 …

the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers …