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 …

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 …

outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment, when profit sharing is also a part of the compensation schemes in … wage effect. For equilibrium unemployment the effects of outsourcing cost and profit sharing are ambiguous both in case of … the absence or presence of outsourcing and in this case lower outsourcing cost will decrease unemployment …

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

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

unemployment. We then discuss and research the role of labour market institutions in the adjustment process that has brought … unemployment back to a 'normal' level. We argue that these institutions cannot be blamed for the increase in unemployment, but that … more flexible institutions could have led to a more rapid fall in unemployment once the Finnish economy began to recover …