Profit Sharing and Unemployment: An Approach with Bargaining and Efficiency-Wage Effects

Erkki Koskela and Rune Stenbacka

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2004, vol. 160, issue 3, 477-497

Abstract: We offer a unified framework to analyse the determination of employment, employee effort, wages, and profit sharing when firms face stochastic revenue shocks. We apply a generalized Nash bargaining solution, which extends the wage bargaining literature by incorporating efficiency-wage considerations, profit sharing, and exogenous capital structure. The profit-sharing instrument is demonstrated to have positive effort-enhancing and wage-moderating effects, which exactly offset the negative dilution effect in equilibrium. We show that the introduction of profit sharing decreases equilibrium unemployment if the benefit replacement ratio is high enough, whereas the reverse holds if the benefit replacement ratio is low.

JEL-codes: G32 J41 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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