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| Title: | | Unionisation Structures and Innovation Incentives  |
| Authors: | | Haucap, Justus Wey, Christian |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Diskussionspapier / Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre 21 |
| Abstract: | | This paper examines how different unionisation structures affect firms? innovation incentives and industry employment. We distinguish three modes of unionisation with increasing degree of centralisation: (1) ?Decentralisation? where wages are determined independently at the firm-level, (2) ?coordination? where one industry union sets individual wages for all firms, and (3) ?centralisation? where an industry union sets a uniform wage rate for all firms. While firms? investment incentives are largest under ?centralisation?, investment incentives are non-monotone in the degree of centralisation: ?Decentralisation? carries higher investment incentives than ?coordination?. Labour market policy can spur innovation by decentralising unionisation structures or through non-discrimination rules. |
| JEL: | | L13 K31 J50 D43 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:gbv:705-opus-1581 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Diskussionspapiere, Fächergruppe VWL, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität
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