Do trade unions care about employment?: reduced-form test results from the Finnish paper and textile industries

Jaakko Pehkonen
Additional contact information
Jaakko Pehkonen: University of Jyväskylä

Finnish Economic Papers, 1990, vol. 3, issue 1, 26-40

Abstract: This study reports the results of testing the seniority model of trade union behaviour using data on two Finnish industries. We found that; (i) the empirical results do not support the idea that the aim of trade unions is merely to push their members' wages as high as possible; (ii) the relationship between the real consumption wage and aggregate unemployment is non-linear in such a way that the unemployment elasticity of the real consumption wage rises in absolute terms with the unemployment rate; and (iii) the unemployment elasticity of the real consumption wage differs significantly across the industries studied.

Date: 1990
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://taloustieteellinenyhdistys.fi/images/stories/fep/f1990_1c.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fep:journl:v:3:y:1990:i:1:p:26-40

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Finnish Economic Papers from Finnish Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Editorial Secretary ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).