unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the …

-paying jobs are rationed due to (i) oligopolistic market structures, (ii) insider-oriented unions and (iii) international …. It is shown that the negative effects dominate if trade unions are sufficiently insider-oriented. -- relocation …

institutional channel for the political effects of trade shocks: the weakening of labor unions. We provide support for this … mechanism in two steps. First, we show that union presence - proxied by the number of workers directly employed by unions, by … political parties with historical links to unions. Furthermore, the impact of the trade liberalization on the vote share of …

wage premium, and it may also increase welfare. -- globalisation ; unions ; non-traded goods ; general oligopolistic …We study how two distinct forms of globalisation, trade cost reductions and opening up of trade in previously shielded … equilibrium (GOLE) with partly unionised labour markets. We find that both forms of globalisation increase union coverage, and …

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions —to examine the … and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions push immigrants to enter lower-paying and lower-quality firms with …