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Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing
Henneberger, Fred; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Ziegler, Alexandre - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. Whenmeasurement costs differ among firms, those with a measurement cost advantage choose toimplement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the level and variabilityof compensation are higher at these firms...
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Job Losses, Outsourcing and Relocation:Empirical Evidence Using Microdata
Artís, Manuel; Ramos, Raúl; Suriñach Caralt, Jordi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisionsand their effects on firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862317
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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role ofExternal Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
industry. Also, the initialadvantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock ineffect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862878
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing andWage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863113
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Equilibrium Unemployment with OutsourcingUnder Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour … demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863250
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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Jha, Priyaranjan - 2007
an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in … an outsourcing equilibrium than in a regime of no outsourcing. Consumer welfare rises, and under fairly plausible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049472
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2014
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051183
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Relational Contracts and the Economic Well-Being of Nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan - 2010
Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI : Recent Advances and Research Gaps
Pflüger, Michael - 2010
This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advances which pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing-up the value added chain and the turn to a task-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134820
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
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