Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121026 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Working Paper No. 25
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
Key aspects in economic integrated areas like the EU are both the internationalization of productive activities, which usually occurs in unionized countries, and the ongoing process of labor market integration. In a symmetric two-country duopoly model with integrated product markets, this paper investigates the incentives for unions to coordinate wage demands in the presence of transaction costs. It shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, under certain conditions wage coordination could lead from a social point of view to a Pareto superior outcome respect to separate wage settings.
Subjects: 
international production
wage coordination
labor unions
JEL: 
F21
F23
J50
J51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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