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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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The Quantification of Structural Reforms: Taking Stock of the Results for OECD and Non-OECD Countries

Egert, Balazs - 2020

whether policy effects vary across countries depending on the level of economic development and whether institutions have an … influence on economic outcomes. The paper lists of policies and institutions that could be used to quantify the effect of …

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The Quantification of Structural Reforms: Extending the Framework to Emerging Market Economies

Egert, Balazs - 2018

non-OECD countries. The findings suggest that the quality of institutions matters to a large extent for economic outcomes …

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The distributional consequences of tax reforms under market distortions

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Jiang, Wei; Malley, Jim - 2011

In this paper we examine the importance of imperfect competition in product and labour markets in determining the long-run welfare effects of tax reforms assuming agent heterogeneity in capital holdings. Each of these market failures, independently, results in welfare losses for at least a...

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The Optimal Distribution of the Tax Burden over the Business Cycle

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Asimakopoulos, Stylianos; … - 2013

This paper analyses optimal income taxes over the business cycle under a balanced-budget restriction, for low, middle and high income households. A model incorporating capital-skill complementarity in production and differential access to capital and labour markets is de-veloped to capture the...

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Asymmetries in Earnings, Employment and Wage Risk in Great Britain

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; Malley, Jim - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour market quantities for Great Britain. We use data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) for 1991-2008 and from the BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014....

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Regulation, Institutions and Aggregate Investment: New Evidence from OECD Countries

Egert, Balazs - 2017

of (legal) institutions alters the overall impact of regulations on capital deepening: better institutions reduce the …

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