Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105527 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 9902
Publisher: 
University of Kent, Department of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the impact of market-oriented economic reforms on union behaviour in Brazil. Previous work shows that openness, deregulation and similar measures constrain union power. In contrast, our results show that insider power has increased in the more competitive environment since the implementation of the reforms in Brazil in the early 1990s. We argue that this is associated with the structure of wage bargaining, and with the low quality of the labour force. Unions take advantage of the higher demand for qualified workers in a more competitive economy by increasing wage pressure.
Subjects: 
Trade liberalisation
insider power
wage structure
wage dispersion
Brazil
JEL: 
F14
J31
J51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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