Economic Integration and Union Power

Bala Batavia () and Parameswar Nandakumar

Open Economies Review, 2002, vol. 13, issue 2, 175-182

Abstract: The standard utility-maximizing model of the trade union in a closed economy is reformulated for an environment where economic integration is under way or expected to occur soon. In the (European) realistic setting of union-dominated labor markets, domestic wages are shown to be affected by labor market developments abroad. This article provides an explanation of the international transmission of inflation and disinflation Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002

Keywords: trade union behavior; capital mobility; economic integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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