DONADO, Alejandro; WALDE, Klaus - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
unions. Standards set by unions tend to increase output and welfare. There are no unions in the South and work standards are … suboptimal. Trade between these two countries can imply a reduction in work standards in the North. Moreover, when trade unions … are established in the South, the North, including northern unions, tend to lose. Quantitatively, these effects are small …