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 sharing after wage formation. What is the relationship between outsourcing …

This paper addresses outsourcing in the two-type optimal income tax model. If the government is able to control … outsourcing via a direct tax instrument, outsourcing will not affect the marginal income tax structure. In the absence of a direct … tax instrument, and under the plausible assumption that higher outsourcing increases the wage differential, the government …

This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …

It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … negative effect on outsourcing. …

production to the other. In the country whose firms outsource production abroad, the government will respond to outsourcing by … the absence of outsourcing. The tax policy response by the government in the country that receives foreign production …

-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determinedby a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage …

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour … demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing …

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of … strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage … firms as outsourcing costs fall... …

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 wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing... …