Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31935 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IAB-Discussion Paper No. 2/2006
Publisher: 
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg
Abstract: 
Most models on centralization in wage setting rest on the assumption of identical firms. This stands in sharp contrast to informal statements against centralization wich rest on the argument that firms are heterogenous and that equal treatment of firms by unions must therefore be ineffcient. We analyse one aspect of this debate in the framework of a median voter model with heterogenous firms but we don't find unique negative employment effects. It may be cumbersome or even impossible to check whether the conditions for unique effects are met. Explorative investigations of the magnitude of the implied effects show however, that they are noteworthy only if differences between firms are large.
Subjects: 
Lohntheorie
Arbeitsmarkttheorie
Lohnfindung
Zentralisierung
Beschäftigungseffekte
Tarifverhandlungen - Effizienz
Gewerkschaft
JEL: 
J51
J52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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