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Relative Demand for Skills in Swedish Manufacturing: Technology or Trade?
Hansson, Pär - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 1999
The rate of change in the share of skilled labor has increased steadily over the past 35 years in Swedish manufacturing. A closer inspection of the period after 1970 indicates that while relative supply changes of skilled labor seem to have been the main driving force behind the growing skill...
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The sources of Iran's Business Cycles
Delavari, Majid; Mohammadali, Hanieh; Naderi, Esmaeil; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
A business cycle is, in fact, fluctuations of macroeconomic variables and gross domestic product. These fluctuations play a substantial role in any country. Prosperity and depression have been the most impressive problem in Iranian economy during the last decades so government and politicians...
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233784
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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
-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
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
-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727293
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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing. Outsourcing will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763596
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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 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 wage tax exemption increase optimal outsourcing. Outsourcing will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765774
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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing and Wage Solidarity under Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - CESifo - 2007
We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … heterogeneous labour market, where wages are determined by a monopoly labour union. We find that outsourcing promotes the wage … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405909
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The determination of wages of newly hired employees: survey evidence on internal versus external factors
Galuščắk, Kamil; Keeney, Mary; Nicolitsas, Daphne; … - Bank of Greece - 2011
This paper uses information from a rich firm-level survey on wage and price-setting procedures, in around 15,000 firms in 15 European Union countries, to investigate the relative importance of internal versus external factors in the setting of wages of newly hired workers. The evidence...
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Business Cycles and Macroeconomic Policy Coordination in Mercosur
Gonzalez-Rozada, Martin; Fanelli, Jose Maria - Econometric Society - 2004
Abstract: The paper analyzes cyclical comovements in the Mercosur area differentiating idiosyncratic from common shocks. In the Mercosur (or any region for that matter) shocks can be country-specific, affecting only one country or a specific set of countries (for example, a weather-related...
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