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This paper studies in the presence of flexible outsourcing the effects of outsourcing costs, productivity of outsourcing, wage tax and tax exemption in an imperfectly competitive labour markets when labour unions and firms negotiate wages and the impacts of labour tax progression on domestic...
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Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. A revenue-neutral increase in the wage tax progression will decrease the … sufficiently weak labor market imperfections. -- Flexible outsourcing ; wage bargaining ; employment ; tax-revenue neutral labor …
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We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled...
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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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’s bargaining power is sufficiently high (low) and outsourcing will increase workers' income in the second case. For the amount of … optimal international outsourcing, we find that it is in a pure wage bargaining system positively (negatively) affected by a … sufficiently high (low) labor union's bargaining power, while in a wage and profit share bargaining system, a higher union …
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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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. By focusing on the right-to-manage wage bargaining we assume that wage is negotiated after the capital stock decision … positively both on the trade union's bargaining power and on the wage elasticity of labour demand. That elasticity depends either …
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In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …
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collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions between wage floors and wage cushions and quantify the impact of …
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We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...
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