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| Title: | | Unions, growth and unemployment  |
| Authors: | | Wapler, Rüdiger |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge 206 |
| Abstract: | | We extend the standard quality-ladder model with heterogeneous workers by including efficiency wages and unions. We find that higher union bargaining power leads to a negative relationship between growth and unemployment. An increase in the supply of human capital, however, on the one hand induces firms to substitute high-skilled labour for jobs previously performed by low-skilled individu- als and on the other hand, increases the demand for low-skilled labour as their productivity rises due to the higher skill-intensity. Depending on which effect dominates, either a positive or negative relationship between the growth and unemployment rates results. |
| Subjects: | | Unions Umemployment Growth Heterogenerous Labour |
| JEL: | | J31 J51 O31 O41 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-19535 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge, Universität Tübingen
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