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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In European Welfare States, unskilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic...

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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...

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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high … unemployment under the reasonable condition that the proportion of high-skilled workers is sufficiently low. …

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The Role of Profit Sharing in a Dual Labour Market with Flexible Outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm's profit via profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the...

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Can Profit Sharing Lower Flexible Outsourcing? A Note

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We analyze the following question associated with flexible outsourcing under imperfect domestic labour market: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? We show that in general profit sharing has a negative effect on low skilled wage and thus an outsourcing...

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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing under Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

unemployment. Finally, we characterize the optimal production mode and show that stronger labour market imperfections lead to a …

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