This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …, domestic labor. -- outsourcing ; foreign direct investment ; optimal nonlinear taxation …

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using … the provision of public input goods in response to international outsourcing, and (ii) whether international outsourcing … justifies policy cooperation. If the public input good is substitutable for (complementary with) outsourcing in terms of the …

firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing … ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …

multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs … between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent. We show that, post encroachment, mutual outsourcing between the competing … mutual outsourcing. Our analysis yields novel managerial, empirical and policy implications. …

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by … function so this will have no total employment effects. -- flexible outsourcing ; dual labor market ; impacts of labour …

We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the … implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage and thus outsourcing? We find that profit sharing … a wage increasing effect via labor demand elasticity so that outsourcing and employment effects are also ambiguous …

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … negative effect on outsourcing. -- Nash wage bargaining ; outsourcing ; labor tax reform …

organizational decision is driven by two countervailing effects: the ownership rights effect favors outsourcing, while the "indirect … outsourcing of the "less important" supplier is chosen in equilibrium. We also consider an open economy setup where the producer … decides whether to offshore inputs. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; property rights approach …

outsourcing by locating part of the production process abroad. Our results show that the incentive to relax the self … outsourcing. Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing, the government may reduce the amount of resources spent on … outsourcing by increased provision of the public input good, which is desirable in the sense that reduced outsourcing contributes …