Market integration and strike activity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent
• 署名单位: Universite Catholique Louvain; Universite Catholique Louvain; Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS; University Saint-Louis - Bruxelles; University Saint-Louis - Bruxelles
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2009.12.003
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 154-161
• 关键词: Intra-industry trade; Economic integration; product market

摘要

We consider a two-country model of wage determination with private information in unionized, imperfectly competitive, industries. We investigate the effects of opening up markets to trade as well as of further market integration on the negotiated wage and the maximum delay in reaching an agreement. From an initial situation of two-way intra-industry trade, an increase in product market integration decreases the maximum delay in reaching an agreement. However, opening up markets to trade has an ambiguous effect on both the wage outcome and the maximum real delay time. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.