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Outsourcing and labor taxation in dual labor markets

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 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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Flexible outsourcing and the impacts of labour taxation in European welfare states

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008

In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high-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...

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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 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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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 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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Heterogeneous Adjustments of Labor Markets to Automation Technologies

Petit, Fabien; Jaccoud, Florencia; Ciarli, Tommaso - 2023

This paper examines the labor market adjustments to four automation technologies (i.e. robots, communication technology, information technology, and software/database) in 227 regions across 22 European countries from 1995 to 2017. By constructing a measure of technology penetration, we estimate...

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Can Workers Still Climb the Social Ladder as Middling Jobs Become Scarce? Evidence from Two British Cohorts

Garcia-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Petit, Fabien; van Ypersele, … - 2023

The increase in employment polarization observed in several high-income economies has coincided with a reduction in inter-generational mobility. This paper argues that the disappearance of middling jobs can drive changes in mobility, notably by removing a stepping stone towards high-paying...

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Can Workers Still Climb the Social Ladder as Middling Jobs Become Scarce? Evidence from Two British Cohorts

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Petit, Fabien; Van … - 2023

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Heterogeneous Adjustments of Labor Markets to Automation Technologies

Petit, Fabien; Jaccoud, Florencia; Ciarli, Tommaso - 2023

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Automation and Employment over the Technology Life Cycle: Evidence from European Regions

Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2025

This paper analyzes how the impacts of ICT, Software & Databases, and Robots on European regional labor markets (1995-2017) vary across technology life cycle phases. Motivated by theories predicting shifting skill biases between early adoption and maturity, we first identify major technological...

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Equilibrium unemployment and capital intensity under product and labor market imperfections

Kauppi, Heikki; Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2004

We study the implications of product and labor market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment under both exogenous … equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is … long-run equilibrium unemployment is an increasing function of product market imperfections when the elasticity exceeds …

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