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Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing
Sørensen, Anders; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2003
employment of skilled labor and changes in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, we show that international outsourcing has played …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272877
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Skill upgrading and rigid relative wages : the case of Danish manufactruing
Skaksen, Jan Rose; Sørensen, Anders - 2002
employment of skilled labor and changes in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, we show that international outsourcing has played … cycle ; outsourcing ; skill biased technological changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001732880
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Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages : The Case of Danish Manufacturing
Skaksen, Jan Rose; Sorensen, Anders - 2021
employment of skilled labor and changes in the unemployment rate. Furthermore, we show that international outsourcing has played …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320133
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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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Analysis of labor tax progression under heterogeneous domestic labor markets and flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 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/10010275003
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Equilibrium unemployment with outsourcing and wage solidarity under labour market imperfections
Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - 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/10010264123
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Outsourcing and labor taxation in dual labor markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 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/10010264385
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Flexible outsourcing and the impacts of labour taxation in European welfare states
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264468
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Impacts of labor taxation with perfectly and imperfectly competitive domestic labor markets under flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2009
-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/10010265972