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The captain of the men of death and his shadow: Long-run impacts of early life pneumonia exposure
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - 2011
after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …
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Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects
De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2012
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …
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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 … 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 …
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Profit sharing and training
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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