We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a …

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

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

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 …

, 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 …