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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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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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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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