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Strategic investment and international outsourcing in unionised oligopoly
Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - 2010
particularly for the relatively less efficient firms. -- Outsourcing ; Unionisation ; Strategic Investment ; Trade Liberalisation …We critically consider the conventional belief that the attractiveness of international outsourcing lies in cheaper … labour costs overseas and that it offers a means to ‘escape’ the power of unions. We develop an oligopoly model in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941026
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The Impact of Trade on Employment, Welfare, and Income Distribution in Unionized General Oligopolistic Equilibrium
Egger, Hartmut - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149008
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The impact of trade on employment, welfare, and income distribution in unionized general oligopolistic equilibrium
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923568
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The impact of trade on employment, welfare, and income distribution in unionized general oligopolistic equilibrium
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935376
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Labor unions and the scale and scope of multi-product firms
Egger, Hartmut; Koch, Michael - 2011
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with multi-product firms and union wage setting in a subset of industries. By claiming a wage premium, labor unions enforce a decline in firm scale and scope and thus dampen industrial output, with negative feedback effects on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936230
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Foreign Direct Investment and Wage Bargaining
Naylor, Robin A.; Santoni, Michele - 2000
We derive the sub-game perfect Nash equilibria for the foreign direct investment (FDI) game played between two unionised firms. Among other results, we show that FDI is less likely, ceteris paribus, the greater is union bargaining power, the stronger the weight the union attaches to wages, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171713
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Union wage setting and international trade
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 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/10009621739
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Union wage setting and international trade
Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 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/10009658593
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'Make-or-Buy' in International Oligopoly And the Role of Competitive Pressure
Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - 2016
an intermediate component in-house or purchasing it from a domestic supplier. We model outsourcing as a bilateral …' incentive to outsource. Consumer gains from trade liberalisation are enhanced when it leads to less outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053228
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Economising, Strategising and the Decision to Outsource
Leahy, Dermot - 2016
We study the make-or-buy decision of oligopolistic firms in an industry in which final good production requires specialized inputs. Firms' mode of operation decision depends on both the incentive to economize on costs and on strategic considerations. We explore the strategic incentives to...
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