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| Title: | | Has the EMU reduced wage growth and unemployment? Testing a model of trade union behavior  |
| Authors: | | Mikosch, Heiner Sturm, Jan-Egbert |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | KOF working papers // KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich 280 |
| Abstract: | | By using a model of trade union behaviour Grüner (2010) argues that the introduction of the European Monetary Union (EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary centralization lets the central bank react less flexibly to national business cycle movements. This increases the amplitude of national business cycles which, in turn, leads to higher unemployment risk. In order to counter-balance this effect, trade unions lower their claims for wage mark-ups resulting in lower wage growth and lower unemployment. This paper uses macroeconomic data on OECD countries and a difference-in-differences approach to empirically test the implications of this model. Although we come up with some weak evidence for increased business cycle amplitudes within the EMU, we neither find a significant general effect of the EMU on wage growth nor on unemployment. |
| Subjects: | | Common currency areas EMU Phillips curve unemployment wages |
| JEL: | | E52 E58 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.3929/ethz-a-006435838 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | KOF Working Papers, KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, ETH Zürich
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