Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26357 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2312
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper analyses tax competition between a unionised and a non-unionised country for the location of an outside firm. We show that unionisation offers an extra incentive for the government to attract a foreign competitor to a concentrated domestic market, in order to affect the behaviour of the domestic union. This results in the unionised country's government offering a tax discount (or a subsidy premium) to the outside firm in excess of what is needed to compensate the investor for the higher union wage. In equilibrium, therefore, the unionised country can attract the outside firm even if it has other location disadvantages, such as a smaller home market.
JEL: 
H87
H25
F21
J58
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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