Vasilev, Aleksandar - In: LABOUR 29 (2015) 2, pp. 101-126
Motivated by the highly-unionized public sectors, the high public shares in total employment, and the public-sector … wage premia observed in Europe, this paper examines the importance of public-sector unions for macroeconomic theory. The …-unionized public sector, namely Germany during the period 1970-2007. The union model is an improvement over a model with exogenous …