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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation … affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost … of outsourcing and lower factor price of outsourcing increase wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low …

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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect … wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost of … outsourcing and lower factor price of outsourcing increase wage dispersion between the skilled and unskilled workers. Increasing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324970

Coherence of output gaps in the euro area : the impact of the Covid-19 shock

Haan, Jakob de; Jacobs, Jan; Zijm, Renske - 2022

Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a...

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The Cyclicality of Effective Wages Within Employer-Employee Matches : Evidence from German Panel Data

Anger, Silke - 2008

Using individual based micro-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), I analyze the cyclicality of real wages for male workers within employer-employee matches over the period 1984-2004, and compare different wage measures: the standard hourly wage rate, hourly wage earnings...

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Graduating from a less selective university during a recession: evidence from mobility report cards and employer recruiting

Weinstein, Russell - 2021

Using mobility report card data, I show graduates of less selective universities experience more adverse impacts of graduating in a recession. I highlight one mechanism: during recessions employers stop recruiting at less selective universities. Using a unique dataset of employer recruiting...

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After the Second Extension of the Transition Period for LDCs : How Can the WTO Gradually Integrate the Poorest Countries into TRIPS?

Hold, Arno - 2015

Due to economic, financial and administrative constraints, least-developed countries (LDCs) have not managed to make significant progress in the implementation of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). In the latest TRIPS Council meeting of 11-12 June...

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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation

Benz, Sebastian - 2014

estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area

Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009

This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...

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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan

Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008

This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...

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Inter-industry wage differentials in EU countries : what do cross-country time varying data add to the picture?

Du Caju, Philip; Kátay, Gábor; Lamo, Ana - 2010

This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for 8 EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain) at two points in time (in general 1995 and 2002) and explores possible...

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