We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher … domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing... …

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 …

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of … strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage …

outsourcing, wage tax and tax exemption in an imperfectly competitive labour markets when labour unions and firms negotiate wages … and the impacts of labour tax progression on domestic wage setting and employment[...] …

Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reformsthat change the …

does strategic outsourcing influence wage formation, profit sharing and employee effort when firms commit to optimal profit … sharing before wage formation or decide for profit sharing after wage formation? What is the relationship between outsourcing …

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour …

This paper draws attention to an increase in the size of the union membership wage premiumin the UK public sector …