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Boeri, Tito - 2014

Two-tier bargaining structures, in which plant-level wage negotiations supplement industry-level wage setting, are present in a number of EU countries, as unions resist pressures for greater decentralization in wage determination. In principle, these two-tier structures could reconcile...

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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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Is there scope for gains from revenue-neutral labor tax reforms with flexible outsourcing?

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2009

We study the effects of revenue-neutral labor tax reforms in an imperfectly competitive domestic labor market under Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. A revenue-neutral increase in the wage tax progression will decrease the negotiated wage rate, increase domestic labor demand and...

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Strategic outsourcing, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment

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

We analyze the following questions associated with outsourcing and profit sharing under imperfect labour markets. How does strategic outsourcing influence wage formation, profit sharing and employee effort when firms commit to optimal profit sharing before wage formation or decide for profit...

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Stability and dynamics in an overlapping generations economy with flexible wage negotiations

Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Puhakka, Mikko (contributor) - 2007

We analyze the stability and dynamics of an overlapping generations model with imperfectly competitive labour markets. By focusing on the right-to-manage wage bargaining we assume that wage is negotiated after the capital stock decision. With Cobb-Douglas utility and production functions the...

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Preferences for collective versus individualised wage setting

Boeri, Tito (contributor); Burda, Michael C. (contributor) - 2008

Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination. This paper models wage rigidity and collective bargaining endogenously, when workers differ by observable skill and may adopt either individualized or collective wage...

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The effects of labour tax progression under nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing

Koskela, Erkki (contributor) - 2008

outsourcing, wage tax and tax exemption in an imperfectly competitive labour markets when labour unions and firms negotiate wages …

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Equilibrium unemployment with outsourcing and wage solidarity under labour market imperfections

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

heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …

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Equilibrium unemployment with outsourcing under labour market imperfections

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

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue that the wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing, which is importantly a result consistent with existing empirical research. Furthermore, we show that a production...

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Setting the minimum wage

Boeri, Tito - 2009

down low productivity jobs is addressed. There are two common ways of setting national minimum wages: they are either … minimum wages in 66 countries that had already or introduced a minimum wage in the period 1981-2005 to test the implications … level of the minimum wage. -- Minimum wages ; collective bargaining ; statutory minimum …

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