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...

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...

In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...

Der "überregulierte" deutsche Arbeitsmarkt gilt als eine der Hauptursachen für die diagnostizierte Standortschwäche. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird ein realoptionstheoretischer Ansatz gewählt, um den Einfluss von Arbeitsmarktregulierungen auf Standortentscheidungen zu analysieren. Die...