Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20038 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 793
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does non-unionization or efficient bargaining. This advantage is further magnified in the presence of credible wage contracts. When the labour market is nonunionized, or there is a bargain over employment, the ruling elite reaps the surplus of FDI through taxation or regulation. In the absence of credible contracts, unions have incentives to claim a bigger share of the revenue of FDI.
Subjects: 
foreign direct investment
labour market regulation
lobbying
JEL: 
D78
J51
F23
F21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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