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Is there scope for gains from revenue-neutral labor tax reforms with flexible outsourcing?
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2009
Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. A revenue-neutral increase in the wage tax progression will decrease the … negotiated wage rate, increase domestic labor demand and decrease international outsourcing. In the presence of wage tax … exemption, a lower payroll tax and a higher wage tax will increase domestic labor demand and decrease international outsourcing …
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Outsourcing cost and tax progression under Nash wage bargaining with flexible outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … outsourcing. …
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The Effects of Labour Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper studies in the presence of flexible outsourcing the effects of outsourcing costs, productivity of … outsourcing, wage tax and tax exemption in an imperfectly competitive labour markets when labour unions and firms negotiate wages … demand is higher than in the case of strategic outsourcing and a decreasing function of the outsourcing cost, an increasing …
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Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage … bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage … negative effect on outsourcing. …
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Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impact of Labor Market Policy Reforms
Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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 … firms as outsourcing costs fall. With respect the impact of labor tax reforms that are well-established in the literature …
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Outsourcing of unionized firms and the impact of labor market policy reforms
Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008
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 … firms as outsourcing costs fall. With respect the impact of labor tax reforms that are well-established in the literature …
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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 …
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Employment Effects of Labour Taxation in an Efficiency Wage Model with Alternative Budget Constraints and Time Horizons
Goerke, Laszlo - 2000
In an efficiency wage economy with variable profits, a shift from payroll to employment taxes will reduce unemployment if the tax level is held constant at the initial wage. However, unemployment will rise if firms are constrained to zero profits in the long-run and if tax revenues are constant....
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Tax Evasion in a Unionised Economy
Goerke, Laszlo - 2001
In a unionised labour market, a substitution of a payroll for an income tax will not alter employment if tax obligations are fulfilled. However, if workers or firms can evade taxes this irrelevance result might no longer apply. This will especially be the case if the fine for tax evasion depends...
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The Wedge
Goerke, Laszlo - 1999
It is often argued that the quantity which is traded on the market is independent of the side of the market which is taxed. However, this assertion need not hold, especially in imperfectly competitive markets like that for labour. Taking an efficiency wage economy as an example, it is shown that...
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