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Unionized Oligopoly, Trade Liberalization and Location Choice

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Sørgard, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In a two-country reciprocal-dumping model, with one country unionized, we analyse how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce a unionized firm to move all production abroad. This cannot prevail in a corresponding,...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Politics: The Swedish Model

Blomström, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

. A particularly important feature of the institutional environment is that Swedish labour unions have supported Swedish …

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Firms Agglomeration and Unions

Picard, Pierre M; Toulemonde, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper develops a model in which the interaction between product market imperfections, transportation costs, unions …

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Unions and Innovation: A Survey of the Theory and Empirical Evidence

Menezes-Filho, Naercio; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper surveys the economic literature on the impact of trade unions on innovation. There are many theoretical … routes through which unions may have an effect on innovation, for example through their effects on relative factor prices … that trade unions will ‘hold up’ firms by expropriating sunk R&D (research and development) investments through demanding …

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Indeterminacy in a Finance Constrained Unionized Economy

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We introduce labour market imperfections (i.e. unions and the existence of a wage floor) in a finance … decreases with union power. We also find that unions increase simultaneously steady-state employment, capital accumulation and …

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The Effects of Migration on the Relative Demand of Skilled versus Unskilled Labour: Evidence from Spain

Dolado, Juan J.; Duce, Rosa; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

In this paper we construct a simple model of the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of natives. In this model, skilled and unskilled labour are substitutes, immigrants are complementary to the former, and wages are determined by bargaining. We are able to prove that,...

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Unemployment, Real Wages and Union Membership

Schmidt, Christoph M; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper investigates economic determinants and effects of aggregate union membership in the Federal Republic of Germany. We establish that in the long run, high union membership levels coincide not only with a large labour force, but also with a high level of real wages, a small dispersion of...

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Endogenous Growth Fluctuations in Unionised Economy with Productive Externalities

Coimbra, Rui; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We discuss the effects of unions in the labour market on steady-state multiplicity and welfare, and on the occurrence …-Douglas technology, unions increase steady state employment and welfare, and local indeterminacy (sunspots) emerges. Our results show … that the role of unions in shaping local dynamics depends on technology (externalities and factor's substitutability …

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Coverage by Incremental Scales

Booth, Alison L; Frank, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey to investigate when seniority is rewarded by automatic incremental scales. Scales are seen as an alternative to individual merit pay. They are likely to be used when individual productivity is hard to measure, when firms provide all workers with...

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Layoffs with Payoffs: A Bargaining Model of Union Wage and Severance Pay Determination

Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

imperfectly competitive labour market where unions and firms bargain over wages and redundancy pay, the implicit contract result …

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