We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm’s profitvia profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the...

We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labourmarkets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries.We find considerable...

We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor unionto analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and thebargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing and the wage level havean individual...

[...]In part, this collection of papers derives from the impact of Subaltern Studies on approaches to the history of labour. While the contributions may not be located within ‘subalternism’, to differing degrees they reflect responses in the literature to that paradigm. At the very least,...

In February 2002, the Small Business Service (SBS) commissioned LeedsMetropolitan University (LMU) to conduct a review of the contribution ofgraduates to small business success. The project stems from a risingconcern amongst policy makers that after years of experimentation instimulating...