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Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - 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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Worker directors: a German product that didn't export?

Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus - 2009

Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...

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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? A panel data analysis for 1977 - 2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypotheses in … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …

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Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms

Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2002

We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...

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Determinants of Profit Sharing in the Finnish Corporate Sector

Arranz-Aperte, Laura; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

This study investigates the role of factors that determine individual employees? and firms? participation in profit sharing schemes. Using a large panel data of Finnish employees for the period 1996-2000 we analyse individual and workplace characteristics that make firms employ profit sharing...

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Strategic outsourcing, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 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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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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The role of profit sharing in a dual labour market with flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 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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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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Does international outsourcing really lower workers' income?

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2010

We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish in our analysis between the case where the parties negotiate over the wage only and where they negotiate over both wage and profit share. We find that in the first case...

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