Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26413 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2368
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Worker movements played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Workplace safety is costly for firms but increases labour supply. A laissez-faire approach leaving safety of workplaces unknown is suboptimal. Safety standards set by better-informed trade unions are output and welfare increasing. Trade between a country with trade unions (the North) and a union-free country (the South) can imply a reduction in work standards in the North. When trade unions are established in the South, the North, including northern unions, tend to lose. Quantitatively, these effects are small and overcompensated by gains in the South.
Subjects: 
Occupational health and safety
trade unions
international trade
welfare
JEL: 
J51
J81
F16
F21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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