Organized Labor and the Scope of International Specialization

Robert Staiger

No 2514, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines the interaction between union wages and the international pattern of production and trade. If union goods are heterogeneous in labor intensity, the introduction of an active union in the domestic country causes only the least labor-intensive range of union goods to be produced there, with goods of greatest labor intensity produced abroad due to the relatively high cost of domestic union Labor. A narrowing of the scope of domestic union production will eliminate relatively labor-intensive goods, leading a rent-maximizing union to raise its union premium. The implications of this union behavior for comparative statics results are considered.

Date: 1988-02
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Published as Journal of Political Economy. October, 1988.

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