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Union membership and employment dynamics: A note

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  • Dittrich, Marcus
  • Schirwitz, Beate

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We show that the well-known result that static union models overstate distortions caused by unionism only holds in the special case of firm-level wage setting. With centralized wage setting, however, it rather depends on both the elasticity of labor demand and union's time preference rate whether static models overrate or even underrate unions' distortions.

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  • Dittrich, Marcus & Schirwitz, Beate, 2011. "Union membership and employment dynamics: A note," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 110(1), pages 38-40, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:110:y:2011:i:1:p:38-40
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    Keywords

    Unions Endogenous membership Bargaining centralization;

    JEL classification:

    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects

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