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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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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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Sickness absence and search unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2004

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …

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Asymmetric capital-tax competition, unemployment and losses from capital market integration

Pethig, Rüdiger; Kolleß, Frieder - 2009

In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in … conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases …

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Market competition and lower tier incentives

Theilen, Bernd - 2008

The relationship between competition and performance-related pay has been analyzed in single-principal-single-agent models. While this approach yields good predictions for managerial pay schemes, the predictions fail to apply for employees at lower tiers of a firm's hierarchy. In this paper, a...

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A continuous theory of income insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...

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Adieu Rabenmutter: The effect of culture on fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare

Borck, Rainald - 2011

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems...

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Probabilistic aging

Grafenhofer, Dominik; Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2006

The paper develops an overlapping generations model with probabilistic aging of households. We define age as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential, health and tastes that are characteristic of a person's position in the life-cycle. In assuming a limited number of different...

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The employment effects of labor and product markets deregulation and their implications for structural reform

Berger, Helge; Danninger, Stephan - 2006

This study explores the effects of labor and product market deregulation on employment growth. Our empirical results, based on an OECD country panel from 1990-2004, suggest that lower levels of product and labor market regulation foster employment growth, including through sizable interaction...

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Equilibrium unemployment with outsourcing under labour market imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2007

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

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