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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
-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 …
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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …. -- heterogeneous domestic labor markets ; wage bargaining ; impacts of labor taxation ; outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732336
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Coherence of output gaps in the euro area : the impact of the Covid-19 shock
Haan, Jakob de; Jacobs, Jan; Zijm, Renske - 2022
Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a...
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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015
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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Real wages and hours in the great recession : evidence from firms and their entry-level jobs
Schaefer, Daniel; Singleton, Carl - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761531
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The role of profit sharing in a dual labour market with flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2009
We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partly imperfect dual domestic labour … sharing influence flexible outsourcing? What is the relationship between outsourcing cost, profit sharing and wages? We show … that profit sharing has a positive effect on low skilled wage and thus an outsourcing enhancing character. The wages of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003807792
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Can profit sharing lower flexible outsourcing? : a note
Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2009
We analyze the following question associated with flexible outsourcing under imperfect domestic labour market: How does … the implementation of profit sharing influence flexible outsourcing? We show that in general profit sharing has a negative … effect on low skilled wage and thus an outsourcing decreasing character. However due to labour union determination of effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824980
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Outsourcing cost and tax progression under Nash wage bargaining with flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
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 …
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Wages and wage-bargaining institutions in the EMU : a survey of the issues
Calmfors, Lars - 2001
A perceived need to increase nominal wage flexibility as a substitute for domestic monetary policy and a tendency to less wage moderation are likely to promote bargaining co-ordination and social pacts in the EMU. But such co-ordination is not likely to be sustainable in the long run, as it...
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The sources of the union wage gap : the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2018
Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal - a country with near-universal union coverage - we find evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and...
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