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Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2007

moderate wages, workers' effort, effective labour input and aggregate output. Whether employment rises or falls, however …

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Trade and labor market outcomes

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Outsourcing, public input provision and policy cooperation

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2009

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...

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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2010

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki - 2009

What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...

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Outsourcing and labor taxation in dual labor markets

Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2008

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...

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The impact of working memory training on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills

Berger, Eva M.; Fehr, Ernst; Hermes, Henning; Schunk, Daniel - 2020

Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or more general self-regulation abilities. Because these abilities substantially affect individuals'...

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Flexible outsourcing and the impacts of labour taxation in European Welfare States

Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2008

In European Welfare States, unskilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of 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...

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Do workers work more when wages are high? : Ernst Fehr; Lorenz Götte

Fehr, Ernst (contributor); Götte, Lorenz (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A behavioral account of the labor market : the role of fairness concerns

Fehr, Ernst (contributor); Götte, Lorenz (contributor); … - 2008

concerns on economic outcomes. We also review evidence from laboratory and field experiments examining the role of wages and … fairness on effort, derive predictions from our approach for entry-level wages and incumbent workers' wages, confront these … of economic policies such as minimum wage laws. -- Fairness ; contracts ; wages ; effort ; experiments …

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