Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall...

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Year of publication:	2008-06-01
Authors:	Koskela, Erkki ; Schöb, Ronnie
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Outsourcing \| Arbeitsplatz \| Einkommensteuerreform \| income tax reform

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Series:	Universität Bonn - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) - Discussion Papers in 2008 Discussion Paper ; 3566 (2008)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	H22 - Incidence ; J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets ; J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives Structure, and Effects ; Corporate growth, plant size and choice of location ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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