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Optimal capital taxation in economies with unionised and competitive labour markets

Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - 2002

reduces employment and lowers the outside option of workers in the unionised sector with the latter effect being stronger. A …

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Outsourcing of unionized firms and the impacts of labour market policy reforms

Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …

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Unemployment insurance in unionized labor markets : neither Ghent nor centralized

Saha, David; Schöb, Ronnie - 2015

This paper analyzes unemployment insurance (UI) schemes in the presence of mobile workers and trade unions at industry or regional level that are capable of internalizing the effect of wage demands on UI contribution rates. We compare two types of existing UI systems. When UI is organized at...

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Workfare and trade unions : labor market repercussions of welfare reform

Schöb, Ronnie - 2003

Workfare proposals concentrate on the work incentives for welfare recipients, thus focusing on the labor supply side. This paper analyzes the effects workfare has on labor demand when the labor market is unionized. As workfare reduces the number of recipients of public financial assistance, a...

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