Hit by the Silk Road: how wage coordination in Europe mitigates the China shock

Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas, Anders Kjelsrud and Karl Ove Moene

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, vol. 125, issue 1, 32-72

Abstract: Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non‐tradable industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world economy. We investigate this argument by exploring within‐country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European countries. Our estimates demonstrate that in countries with uncoordinated wage setting, regions with higher import exposure experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage coordination experienced no such employment effects. We show that our findings are robust to alternative measures of wage coordination, industry classifications, and trade exposure.

Date: 2023
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