This paper addresses outsourcing in the two-type optimal income tax model. If the government is able to control … outsourcing via a direct tax instrument, outsourcing will not affect the marginal income tax structure. In the absence of a direct … tax instrument, and under the plausible assumption that higher outsourcing increases the wage differential, the government …

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …

production to the other. In the country whose firms outsource production abroad, the government will respond to outsourcing by … the absence of outsourcing. The tax policy response by the government in the country that receives foreign production …

, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain government outsourcing by the pursuit of … economic efficiency. Starting out from different theories, we investigate political explanations of government outsourcing … using a Swedish data set in which outsourcing varies between municipalities and over time, as well as between services. Our …

are less suitable for outsourcing, while network services (public transportation) may be outsourced through public tenders …

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …

We survey the literature on the effects of public sector outsourcing. Guided by theory, we systematically arrange … indicates that public sector outsourcing generally reduces costs without hurting quality. This is clearly the case for … "perfectly contractible services" like garbage collection, but outsourcing often seems to work reasonably well also for some …

are less suitable for outsourcing, while network services (public transportation) may be outsourced through public tenders …

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …