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 …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …

unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … cyclical behaviour of stocks and flows in the labour market also without search frictions. In periods of high unemployment …

high-wage country with an imperfectly competitive labour market so that outsourcing reduces equilibrium unemployment …

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. …