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Union Wage Setting and International Trade

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - CESifo - 2012

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with two countries that differ in the centralization of union wage setting. Being interested in the consequences of openness, we show that, in the short-run, trade increases welfare and employment in both locations, and it raises...

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Union Bargaining Power and Product Innovation: Relevance of the Preference Function

Basak, Debasmita; Hoefele, Andreas; Mukherjee, Arijit - CESifo - 2014

We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised …

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The Impact of Trade on Employment, Welfare, and Income Distribution in Unionized General Oligopolistic Equilibrium

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - CESifo - 2009

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with unionized labor markets. By accounting for productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and...

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Market Power of the Input Supplier, Technology Transfer and Consumer Welfare

Cao, Jiyun; Mukherjee, Arijit - CESifo - 2014

It is believed that market power of the input supplier, charging a linear price, is detrimental for the consumers since it creates the double marginalisation problem. We show that this view may not be true if the final goods producers can adopt strategies to reduce rent extraction by the input...

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Entrepreneurship in a Unionised Economy

Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - CESifo - 2000

This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...

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Union Membership and Employment Dynamics: A Note

Dittrich, Marcus; Schirwitz, Beate - CESifo - 2010

overstate distortions caused by unions only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. If, however, the union is big … enough to determine employment for the whole sector, it rather depends on both the elasticity of labor demand and union’s … time preference whether static frameworks overrate or even underrate unions’ distortions. …

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Trade and Unions: Can Exporters Benefit from Collective Bargaining?

Capuano, Stella; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, Jans-Jörg - CESifo - 2014

Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in …

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Can Immigrant Employment Alleviate the Demographic Burden? The Role of Union Centralization

Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2005

This paper investigates the effect of labor immigration on public pensions when wage setting by a centralized trade union leads to unemployment. It is shown that immigration improves the financial soundness of pay-as-you-go pensions if and only if it diminishes total employment. This occurs if...

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Relative Consumption, Working Time, and Trade Unions

Goerke, Laszlo; Hillesheim, Inga - CESifo - 2013

incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive markets. We show that trade unions which are unable to internalise the … externality can nevertheless mitigate the resulting distortion. The reason is that wages above the market clearing level are only … establishes that trade unions can have a welfare-enhancing role in a world with relative consumption effects. …

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Universal Intellectual Property Rights: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies the incentives that developing countries have to protect intellectual properties rights (IPR). On the one hand, free-riding on rich countries technology reduces their investment cost in R&D. On the other hand, firm that violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that...

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