This paper develops a two-country model of international trade with Cournot competition. The labor markets are unionized so that a trade union bargains efficiently with each firm over wage and employment. It is shown that if the bargaining power of unions differs among countries then, as trade...

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...