We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

We study the implications of product and labor market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment under both exogenous … equilibrium unemployment. The relationship between the long-run unemployment and the intensity of product market competition is … long-run equilibrium unemployment is an increasing function of product market imperfections when the elasticity exceeds …

high-wage country with an imperfectly competitive labour market so that outsourcing reduces equilibrium unemployment …

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in a … magnify, and not dampen, this tendency. Further, higher outsourcing will increase equilibrium unemployment among the high … unemployment under the reasonable condition that the proportion of high-skilled workers is sufficiently low. …

, profit sharing, and equilibrium unemployment depending on whether in other industries profit share is or is not a part of the …. Under flexible profit sharing wage is higher if optimal profit share is small enough. For equilibrium unemployment, we find … that if there is no profit sharing in other industries, outsourcing will decrease the unemployment rate. But if profit …

outsourcing cost, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment, when profit sharing is also a part of the compensation schemes in … wage effect. For equilibrium unemployment the effects of outsourcing cost and profit sharing are ambiguous both in case of … the absence or presence of outsourcing and in this case lower outsourcing cost will decrease unemployment. …