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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316510
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136006
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154267
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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316453
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Employment-Productivity Trade-off and Labour Composition
Boulhol, Hervé - 2009
This paper formalises the analysis of the employment-productivity trade-off by extending the framework developed by Gordon (1997) to account for labour heterogeneity. The extent of the trade-off is determined by the extent of the adjustment of capital to effective labour and by the changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444920
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727293
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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765774
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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766144
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The Effects of Population Structure on Employment and Productivity
Boulhol, Hervé - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
The composition of the working-age population can influence aggregate employment and average productivity because both employment rates and productivity levels vary across population groups. This paper assesses the quantitative importance of the working-age population broken down by age, gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046034
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Employment-Productivity Trade-off and Labour Composition
Boulhol, Hervé; Turner, Laure - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
This paper formalises the analysis of the employment-productivity trade-off by extending the framework developed by Gordon (1997) to account for labour heterogeneity. The extent of the trade-off is determined by the extent of the adjustment of capital to effective labour and by the changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046219