Market Integration and Strike Activity

Ana Mauleon and Vincent Vannetelbosch

No 2005025, Discussion Papers (ECON - Département des Sciences Economiques) from Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques

Abstract: We consider a two-country model of wage determination with private information in unionized imperfectly competitive industries. We investigate the effects of separated product markets opening up for competition as well as of further market integration on the negociated wage and the maximum delay in reaching an agreement. From an initial situation of reciprocal intra-industry trade, an increase in product market integration will decrease the maximal delay in reaching an agreement. However, markets opening up for competition have an ambiguous effect on both the wage outcome and the maximum real delay time in reaching an agreement.

Keywords: economic integration; product market competition; wage bargaining; strike activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 J50 J52 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2005-04-01
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