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 …

reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …

. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …

This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage …

We study the implications of product and labor market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment under both exogenous … equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is … long-run equilibrium unemployment is an increasing function of product market imperfections when the elasticity exceeds …

for equilibrium unemployment in an economy with product and labour market imperfections. We show that intensified product … market competition will reduce equilibrium unemployment, whereas the effect of increased capital intensity is more complex …. Higher capital intensity will decrease the equilibrium unemployment when the elasticity of substitution between capital and …

high-wage country with an imperfectly competitive labour market so that outsourcing reduces equilibrium unemployment …

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. …