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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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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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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 … 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 …

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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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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...

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Profit sharing, wage formation and flexible outsourcing under labor market imperfection

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2010

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 and the wage level have an individual...

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Does international outsourcing really lower workers’ income?

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2010

We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish in our analysis between the case where the parties negotiate over the wage only and where they negotiate over both wage and profit share. We find that in the first case...

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Equilibrium unemployment with outsourcing and wage solidarity under labour market imperfections

Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Stenbacka, Rune (contributor) - 2007

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high … unemployment under the reasonable condition that the proportion of high-skilled workers is sufficiently low. …

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Equilibrium unemployment with outsourcing under labour market imperfections

Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Stenbacka, Rune (contributor) - 2007

unemployment. Finally, we characterize the optimal production mode and show that stronger labour market imperfections lead to a …

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Strategic outsourcing, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment

Koskela, Erkki (contributor); König, Jan (contributor) - 2008

, profit sharing, and equilibrium unemployment when profit sharing is also a part of a compensation scheme in all industries … sharing. For equilibrium unemployment, we find that if there is also profit sharing in other industries, the effects of … outsourcing and profit sharing on the unemployment rate is ambiguous both in the committed and flexible case. -- Outsourcing …

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