Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …