HOW ROBUST IS THE MICROECONOMIC THEORY OF THE TRADE-UNION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: MANNING, A
• 署名单位: University of Bergen
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/298351
• 发表日期: 1994
• 页码: 430-459
• 关键词: employment; CONTRACTS; MARKET; models; wages

摘要

This article argues that the predictions of standard trade union models and the tests for distinguishing between these models are not robust to quite small and reasonable changes in the conventional assumptions. In particular, it considers the effect of assuming that the ex post substitutability between labor and capital is less than the ex ante substitutability. The paper shows that much of the conventional wisdom about the effects of trade unions is not necessarily true in this framework.