Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing

Erkki Koskela

No 4544, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled labor in the presence of outsourcing? A higher degree of tax progression by raising the wage tax and the tax exemption for the low-skilled workers will decrease the wage rate and increase labour demand of low-skilled workers, whereas it will decrease (increase) employment of high-skilled workers in CES utility function when the elasticity of substitution between consumption and leisure is higher (lower) than one. A higher degree of wage tax progression for the high-skilled worker will have no effect on the high-skilled wage in the presence of CES and C-D utility function so this will have no total employment effects.

Keywords: dual labor market; impacts of labour taxation; flexible outsourcing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 H22 J21 J31 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2009-11
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Published - published in: Thomas J. Sargent and Jouko Vilmunen (eds.): Macroeconomics at the Service of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012, 186-214

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