The fixed wage puzzle: why profit sharing is so hard to implement

It is well known that profit sharing arrangements Pareto-dominate fixed wage contracts. Share agreements are (far) less than ubiquitous, however. This paper offers a solution of this "fixed wage puzzle“ by adopting a perspective of bounded rationality. We show that share arrangements...

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Hauptverfasser: Jerger, Jürgen 1965- (VerfasserIn), Michaelis, Jochen 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Regensburg Osteuropa-Inst. April 2010
Schriftenreihe:Arbeiten aus dem Osteuropa-Institut Regensburg Nr. 283
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Zusammenfassung:It is well known that profit sharing arrangements Pareto-dominate fixed wage contracts. Share agreements are (far) less than ubiquitous, however. This paper offers a solution of this "fixed wage puzzle“ by adopting a perspective of bounded rationality. We show that share arrangements that fulfill "plausible“ constraints are not generally acceptable to both firms and unions.
Beschreibung:7 S.
ISBN:9783938980323

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