Unionized oligopoly, trade liberalization and location choice : presented at CESifo Area Workshop on Employment and Social Protection, June 2002

Kjell Erik Lommerud; Frode Meland; Lars Sørgard

In a two-country reciprocal dumping model, with one country unionized, we analyze how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce FDI, which is at odds with conventional theoretical wisdom and cannot happen in a corresponding model without unionization. FDI is undertaken partly to win a distributional battle with unionized labor, and the incentives to invest abroad can be too large seen from a welfare point of view.

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Lommerud, Kjell Erik ; Meland, Frode ; Sørgard, Lars
Publisher:	Munich : Univ., Center for Economic Studies [u.a.]
Subject:	Handelsliberalisierung \| Trade liberalization \| Betriebliche Standortwahl \| Firm location choice \| Gewerkschaftsmitgliedschaft \| Union membership \| Zwei-Länder-Modell \| Two-country model \| Wohlfahrtsanalyse \| Welfare analysis \| Theorie \| Theory \| Außenhandel \| Liberalisierung \| Standortplanung \| Gewerkschaftsmitglied \| Wohlfahrtseffekt

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Extent:	29 S graph. Darst
Series:	CESifo working papers : the international platform of Ludwig-Maximilians University's Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute. - Munich : CESifo, ISSN 1617-9595, ZDB-ID 2023380-2. - Vol. 777
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Literaturverz. S. 22 - 23 Internetausg.: http://www.cesifo.de/pls/ifo_app/DocLinkCESifoDl?getDoc=cesifo_wp777.pdf
Classification:	D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection ; F15 - Economic Integration ; F16 - Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; F21 - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements ; J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives Structure, and Effects
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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