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Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

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  • Erkki Koskela
  • Jan König
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    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 a constant effort level will result so that in this case firm’s optimal choice of profit sharing is zero.

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    Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number 2606.

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    Date of creation: 2009
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    Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_2606

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    Keywords: flexible outsourcing; profit sharing; labour market imperfection;

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    1. Koskela, Erkki & König, Jan, 2010. "Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection," IZA Discussion Papers 4707, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
    2. Erkki Koskela & Jan König, 2010. "Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection," CESifo Working Paper Series 2925, CESifo Group Munich.

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