Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/167669 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge No. 2017,2
Publisher: 
Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fachgruppe für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Neubiberg
Abstract: 
In this investigation, a political economy model of the labor market is proposed, where unions offer their (old and new) affiliates the combinations between the average real wage level and the standard deviation of wages or salaries. Globalization and other forces, however, have made it recently more difficult to the unions to pursue their policy in the backdrop of a declining union density. This has been established empirically for selected European countries. In an econometric exercise, we have also tested directly the impact of changes in real wages, minimum wage rate, and the effect of 90 to 10 decile ratio on the change in the degree of affiliation, which the unions were able to achieve in the recent past.
Subjects: 
political Economy of the labor market
union density
wage dispersion
average and minimum wages
JEL: 
J51
D72
J31
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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