We analyze union behavior in a model with membership dynamics and compare the labor market outcomes to static union … 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 …

South. In the North, there is wage bargaining between a labor union and firms, and a minimum wage rate exists. Unilateral …

from autarky to free trade with a symmetric partner country lowers union wage claims and therefore stimulates employment … environment as well as on the degree of centralization in union wage setting. Finally, the distribution of profit income across …

equilibrium unemployment, because it induces wage-enhancing effects causing an increase in the outside option available to union … union in the labour market. …

union wage setting. Being interested in the consequences of openness, we show that, in the short-run, trade increases … export of jobs. -- general oligopolistic equilibrium ; union wage setting ; asymmetric labor market institutions ; trade … liberalization ; capital mobility ; decentralization in union wage setting …

union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on absence. Moreover, a union may oppose higher sick pay if it … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …