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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki - 2007
high-wage country with an imperfectly competitive labour market so that outsourcing reduces equilibrium unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777827
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Unemployment Effects of the German Minimum Wage in an Equilibrium Job Search Model
Blömer, Maximilian - 2020
unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851339
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Real and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Open Economies
Forslund, Anders - 2013
How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754391
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Real and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Open Economies
Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - CESifo - 2006
How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094255
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - CESifo - 2007
high-wage country with an imperfectly competitive labour market so that outsourcing reduces equilibrium unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094289
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Entrepreneurship in a Unionised Economy
Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - CESifo - 2000
This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181309
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Union Membership and Employment Dynamics: A Note
Dittrich, Marcus; Schirwitz, Beate - CESifo - 2010
overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. If, however, the union is big … enough to determine employment for the whole sector, it rather depends on both the elasticity of labor demand and union’s … time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions’ distortions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671723
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Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?
Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - CESifo - 2014
Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086453
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Labour Market Institutions and Their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries
Fialová, Kamila - 2008
various performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that … high taxes increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769662
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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