Union Wage Bargaining and Economic Growth

ISBN-13: 9783540215226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 199 str.

Jörg Lingens

Opis

Writing a book is not possible without the generous input of many people. It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to thank at least some of these people. Prof. Dr. Jochen Michaelis, the supervisor of my dissertation, taught me how to do economic analysis and initiated my interest in labour market is sues. Discussions with him have always been enlightening and have greatly improved the analysis in this book. Moreover, he always encouraged me when I experienced a slump in my motivation. He never lost his calmness and good temper, not even in situations when my need for discussion must have been bothering him. Thanks for that Jochen. I'm indebted to Prof. Dr. Peter Weise for taking over the job as the sec ond referee of my thesis. He gave very valuable comments and sacrificed his christmas holiday to write the referee report as fast as possible. I also want to thank Prof. Stefan Voigt and Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kosfeld, the other two members of the dissertation committee, for the discussion during the defence of the thesis."

Spis treści

I Introduction.- I Introduction.- II Bargaining Theory.- 1 Static Bargaining Models.- 1.1 The Nash Bargaining Solution.- 1.1.1 The General Idea.- 1.1.2 An Application to Wage Negotiations.- 1.2 The Rubinstein Solution.- 1.2.1 The General Idea.- 1.2.2 An Application to Wage Negotiations.- 1.3 Rubinstein vs Nash.- 2 Dynamic Wage Bargaining.- 2.1 The General Idea.- 2.2 Appendix.- III Unions and Capital.- 3 Unions and Investment.- 3.1 Unions and Investment-The Two Period Case.- 3.2 Unions and Investment-The Infinite Horizon Case.- 4 Unions in a Solow Type Growth Model.- 4.1 The Model of Kemp and Van Long (1987).- 4.1.1 The General Case.- 4.1.2 The CES Case.- 4.2 The Palokangas Model (1989).- 5 Unions in a Diamond Type Growth Model.- 5.1 The Basic Model.- 5.2 Union Wage Bargaining.- 5.3 Appendix.- 6 Unions in an AK Model.- 6.1 The Basic Model.- 6.2 Union Wage Bargaining.- 7 Summary.- IV Unions and Creative Destruction.- 8 The Growth Model.- 8.1 The Econorny.- 8.2 The Steady State Rate of Growth.- 9 Union Wage Bargaining.- 9.1 The right-to-manage Case.- 9.1.1 The Employment Effects of the Labour Union.- 9.1.2 The Growth Effects of the Labour Union.- 9.2 Efficient Bargaining.- 10 Appendix.- V Unions and Expanding Product Variety.- 11 One Sector Bargaining.- 11.1 The Basic Model.- 11.2 The Unionised Economy.- 11.3 Appendix.- 12 Tax Policy.- 12.1 The Basic Model.- 12.2 Tax Reforms.- 12.2.1 Ex-Ante Revenue Neutrality.- 12.2.2 Ex-Post Revenue Neutrality.- 12.3 Appe ndix.- 13 Simultaneous Wage Bargaining.- 13.1 The Growth Model.- 13.1.1 The Consumption Good Sector.- 13.1.2 The Intermediate Good Sector.- 13.1.3 The Research Sector.- 13.1.4 Households.- 13.1.5 Steady State Equilibrium.- 13.2 The Unionised Economy.- 13.2.1 Wage Bargaining in the Intermediate Sector.- 13.2.2 Wage Bargaining in the R&D Sector.- 13.2 .3 General Equilibrium.- 13.3 Equilibrium Unemployment.- 13.4 Growth Effects of the Wage Bargain.- 13.5 Appendix.- 13.5.1 The Bargained Wage in the Intermediate Goods Sector.- 13.5.2 The Bargained Wage in the Research Sector.- 13.5.3 Coefficients of the Linearised Equilibrium Conditions.- VI Unions, Labour Productivity and Dual Labour Markets.- 14 An OLG Model with Growing Labour Productivity.- 14.1 The Basic Model.- 14.1.1 Production.- 14.1.2 Households.- 14.1.3 Equilibrium.- 14.2 Union Wage Bargaining.- 14.3 Appendix.- 15 An Infinite Horizon Model with Growing Labour Productivity.- 15.1 The Basic Model.- 15.2 Union Wage Bargaining.- 15.3 Appendix.- VII Summary and Conclusion.- VII Summary and Conclusion.- References.