Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions; Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure

Ronnie Schöb and David Wildasin
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No 167, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of labor market integration, in the form of worker mobililty, in a model with long-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment. Increased mobility leads to more flexible labor market institutions in which firms can more easily vary the level of employment in response to fluctuations in demand. Economic integration is potentially Pareto-improving but, in the absence a system of compensation, workers are harmed by greater labor mobility while the owners of firms benefit from higher profits.

Date: 1998
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