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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impacts of Labour Market Policy Reforms
Koskela, Erkki - 2008
the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly andImperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Marketsunder Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep therelative tax burden per low … of low-skilled workers, whereas it willdecrease (increase) employment of high-skilled workers in CES utility function …
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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859632
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Labour Taxation and Employment in Trade Union Models : A Partial Survey
Koskela, Erkki - 2002
employees and employers and firms unilaterally determine employment, to discuss the relationship between labour taxation and … employment. In imperfectly competitive labour markets higher labour taxes - income and payroll taxes - will increase labour costs … and have negative effects on employment. Tax progression tends to moderate wages and boost employment. Moreover, if labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014114975
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The un-intended convergence : how the Finnish unemployment reached the European level
Koskela, Erkki; Uusitalo, Roope - 2003
The Finnish unemployment rose in the early 1990 s from three to eighteen percent in four years. Unemployment has then decreased to the average European level, being 8.5 percent in October 2002. In this paper, we describe the shocks leading to this unforeseen increase in unemployment. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506222
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Equilibrium Unemployment Under Negotiated Profit Sharing
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 2021
We study employment, employee effort, wages and profit sharing when firms face stochastic revenue shocks and when base … destructive from the point of view of employment when the labour market "rigidities" are sufficiently small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319814
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The Un-Intended Convergence : How the Finnish Unemployment Reached the European Level
Koskela, Erkki; Uusitalo, Roope - 2021
Finnish unemployment rose in the early 1990s from 3% to 18% in just four years. It has since fallen back to the average European level, being 9.0% in January 2003. In this paper, we describe the shocks leading to this unforeseen increase in unemployment. We then discuss and research the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320050
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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822783
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … of low-skilled workers, whereas it will decrease (increase) employment of high-skilled workers in CES utility function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693839
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … of low-skilled workers, whereas it will decrease (increase) employment of high-skilled workers in CES utility function …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727293