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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: 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 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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How i learned to stop worrying and love the crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...

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Reform, uncertainty and spillovers: A gravity model approach

Fidrmuc, Jan; Karaja, Elira; Tichit, Ariane - 2012

Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...

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Regulation, Institutions, and Productivity: New Macroeconomic Evidence from OECD Countries

Egert, Balazs - 2017

institutions. For a panel of OECD countries, we find that anticompetitive product market regulations are associated with lower MFP … of product market regulations on MFP may depend on the level of labour market regulations. Better institutions, a more … in labour market regulations, barriers to trade and investment and institutions (including corruption). …

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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries

Brixiova, Zuzana; Egert, Balazs - 2017

This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment …

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