Cyclical and Welfare Effects of Public Sector Unions in a Real-Business-Cycle Model

Aleksandar Vasilev

No 2013-83, SIRE Discussion Papers from Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)

Abstract: Motivated by the highly-unionized public sectors, the high public shares in total employment, and the public sector wage premia observed in Europe, this paper examines the importance of public sector unions for macroeconomic theory. The model generates cyclical behavior in hours and wages that is consistent with data behavior in an economy with highly-unionized public sector, namely Germany during the period 1970-2007. The union model is a signifi cant improvement over a model with exogenous public employment. In addition, endogenously-determined public wage and hours add to the distortionary e ffect of contractionary tax reforms by generating greater tax rate changes, thus producing signi ficantly higher welfare losses.

Keywords: fiscal policy; public wages; public employment; public sector labor union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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