Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75698 
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Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 587
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper looks at intergenerational welfare effects of increased public debt when union power in pay bargaining generates structural unemployment. Debt policy works through capital accumulation as well as the price of a fixed asset that is owned by the old generation. Under a reasonable condition, the debt burden on future generations from postponement of the labor tax is larger than in the case of no union power. Under this condition, increased union power also reduces the consumption of future generations.
Subjects: 
public debt
trade unions
intergenerational welfare
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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