We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. When the labour union adopts a solidaristic wage policy, it will …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher … domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing. Outsourcing will …

In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high … affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost … of outsourcing and lower factor price of outsourcing increase wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low …

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … raising the wage tax and the tax exemption for the low-skilled workers will decrease the wage rate and increase labour demand … when the elasticity of substitution between consumption and leisure is higher (lower) than one. A higher degree of wage tax …

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … raising the wage tax and the tax exemption for the low-skilled workers will decrease the wage rate and increase labor demand … when the elasticity of substitution between consumption and leisure is higher (lower) than one. A higher degree of wage tax …