Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263291 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 1154
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
This paper examines how unionization affects economic growth through its impact on industry concentration in a two-country model of international trade and endogenous productivity growth. Knowledge spillovers link firm-level productivity in innovation with geographic patterns of industry ensuring a faster rate of output when industry is relatively concentrated in the country with the greater labor supply. We show that stronger bargaining power in the relatively large country increases the rate of output growth when labor unions are employment-oriented, but decreases the rate of growth when unions are wage-oriented. We then calibrate the model using labor market data for the United States and the United Kingdom and study the effects of falling union bargaining power on industry location patterns, output growth, and national welfare.
Subjects: 
Labor Union Bargaining Power
Industry Concentration
Knowledge Diffusion
Endogenous Productivity Growth
Endogenous Market Structure
JEL: 
F43
O30
O40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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