Is wage-leadership an instrument to coordinate unions' wage-policy? The case of imperfect product markets.

Given an oligopolistic product market, trade unions organized at firm level want to coordinate their wage bargaining activities, even if they are self interested. In this paper a situation is analysed, where for some exogenous reasons a complete centralization is not possible. Unions could try to co...

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Main Author: Grandner, Thomas
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 1996
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Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/58/1/document.pdf