labour market interdependencies and the consequences of trade liberalisation for union wages. The analysis suggests that … national wages are likely to be strategic complements (substitutes), if products are ordinary substitutes (complements). Under … the assumption of linear demand it is shown that bilateral trade liberalisation always leads to higher union set wages and …

works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …

setting is centralized, wages do not depend on product quality differentiation in the product market but when the bargained … endogenous choices by firms of the quality level of their products: especially when unionization is decentralized and unions have …

firm declines with the number of firms (business stealing), there is excessive entry into such oligopoly. If trade unions …Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this … evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per …

In a social custom model of union membership with wage bargaining, higher levels of company taxes lower wages while …

; International Oligopoly ; Uniform Wages … or discriminatory. Firms are heterogenous with regard to international competition. When unions choose their wage regimes … is sufficiently intense, both unions revert to the discriminatory regime. Paradoxically only in those latter instances …