outsourcing and profit sharing on the unemployment rate is ambiguous both in the committed and flexible case …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 …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …

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

We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish … and profit share. We find that in the first case outsourcing will reduce (increase) workers' income, if the labor union …'s bargaining power is sufficiently high (low) and outsourcing will increase workers' income in the second case. For the amount of …

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 … a wage increasing effect via labor demand elasticity so that outsourcing and employment effects are also ambiguous …

We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partly imperfect dual domestic labour … sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and wages? We show … that profit sharing has a positive effect on low skilled wage and thus an outsourcing enhancing character. The wages of …

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 …

Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North … unemployment rate between two to five times higher than the North. GDP per capita is also twice in the North than in the South … equilibrium matching model, explain the high unemployment rate in the South and, perhaps more interestingly, the low unemployment …