Integration, Labor Market Regulation, Lobbying,and Technological Change

This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled andunskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts newmembers to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilledlabor and supports firms by taxation. Firms and workers lobby the planner for prospectivepolicy. It is shown that in the political equilibrium small unions regulate the labor market butdo not support firms, while large unions deregulate the labor market and support firms....

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Year of publication:	2009-03-01
Authors:	Palokangas, Tapio
Institutions:	Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Arbeitsmarkt \| Labour Market \| Technische Entwicklung \| Mindestlohn \| Marktmacht \| nmarket power \| Wirtschaftliche Integration

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Series:	Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) - Discussion Paper IZA Discussion Paper No. 4096
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	F15 - Economic Integration ; J50 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining. General ; O40 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity. General ; Ergonomic job analysis ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)