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-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
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-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
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-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 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 …
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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 …
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-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
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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 …
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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 … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high …
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We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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Using employer-employee panel data, we provide novel facts on how real wages and working hours within jobs responded to the UK's Great Recession. In contrast to previous studies, our data enables us to address the cyclical composition of jobs. We show that firms were able to respond to the Great...
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We study the various consequences of and the incentives for outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour … demand increases as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is a result consistent with existing empirical research …. Furthermore, we show that a production mode with a higher proportion of outsourcing activity reduces the negotiated wage in the …
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