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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877792
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Union wage-setting and international trade with footloose capital
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 56-67
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010931309
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Union Wage Setting and International Trade
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610263
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Product and Labor Market Deregulation in Unionized Oligopoly with Asymmetric Countries
Hartmut, Egger; Meland, Frode - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2011
setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611660
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Trade cost reduction, subcontracting and unionised wage
Maiti, Dibyendu; Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Labour Economics 21 (2013) C, pp. 103-110
We show the effects of trade cost reduction in the presence of a domestic firm's strategic output allocation between formal in-house production and subcontracting to the informal sector. Considering a one-way trade, we show that trade cost reduction increases the in-house unionised wage,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636429
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The Impact of Trade on Employment, Welfare, and Income Distribution in Unionized General Oligopolistic Equilibrium
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with unionized labor markets. By accounting for productivity dierences, the model features prot and wage dierentials across industries. We use this setting to study the impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008561058
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On the Internalization of Cross-National Externalities through Political Markets: The Case of Labour Standards
Aidt, Toke S.; Hwang, Uk - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 164 (2008) 3, pp. 509-533
Can lobbying internalize cross-national externalities? This paper investigates this in a two-country economy where governments regulate labour markets through national labour standards, but are subject to lobbying. We study four different lobbying architectures and show that cross-national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764394
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The winner gives it all: Unions, tax competition and offshoring
Koh, Hyun-Ju; Mittermaier, Ferdinand - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper analyzes competition for capital between welfare-maximizing gov- ernments in a framework with agglomeration tendencies and asymmetric union- ization. We find that a unionized country's government finds it optimal to use tax policy to induce industry to relocate towards a location with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479298
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Globalization and Union Opposition to Technological Change
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We find that trade unions have a rational incentive to oppose the adoption of labour-saving technology when labour demand is inelastic and unions care much for employment relative to wages. Trade liberalization typically increases trade union technology opposition. These conclusions are reached...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123737
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The impact of trade on employment, welfare, and income distribution in unionized general oligopolistic equilibrium
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 6, pp. 1119-1135
This paper sets up a multi-sector general oligopolistic equilibrium trade model in which all firms face wage claims of firm-level unions. By accounting for productivity differences across industries, the model features income inequality along multiple lines, including inequality between firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010597470