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We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a …
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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 empirical research...
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Will outsourcing be a winner or loser from the global crisis? This sector has been a major beneficiary of the boom in business services trade since the mid-1990s, coinciding with the rise of emerging market economies. This growth survived – indeed was arguably a beneficiary of – the last...
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abroad, and where outsourcing issubstitutable for domestic low-ability labor. Our results show that the incentives for … unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing.Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …
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Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a … gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to … previous editions of the Chartbook of International Labor Comparisons on this website too. …
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We analyze the following questions associated with flexible outsourcing under partlyimperfect dual domestic labour markets, where high skilled workers participate in firm’s profitvia profit sharing: How does the implementation of profit sharing influence flexibleoutsourcing? What is the...
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relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under thefollowing (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing …-up the value added chain and the turnto a task-based approach, (2) firm heterogeneity and labor markets, (3) complex … offshoring(integration) and sourcing strategies and (4) location of firms and labor markets. Second, weoverview existing …
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We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor unionto analyze how does the … increasing effect via labor demand elasticity so thatoutsourcing and employment effects are also ambiguous.... …
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What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep therelative tax burden per low …-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case ofheterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low …-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree oftax progression by …
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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 …
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