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Unions, wage differential and indeterminacy

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In this paper, we are interested in the influence of labor market structure and wage differential on the occurrence of endogenous fluctuations. For this purpose, we introduce a dual labor market in an overlapping generations model. In the first sector, the wage comes from bargaining between producers and unions, whereas the wage is perfectly competitive in the other sector. In this framework, we compare the conditions for indeterminacy with respect to two different bargaining processes: the right-to-manage model and the efficiency bargaining model. We show that not only the labor market structure and the union bargaining power have an influence on local indeterminacy, but also the technological features. Indeed, when the capital share is greater in the non-unionized sector, indeterminacy always occurs whatever the bargaining process. On the contrary, when the capital share is greater in the unionized sector, indeterminacy emerges only in the efficiency bargaining model with a high enough union bargaining power.

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halshs-00194137 , version 1 (05-12-2007)

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Francesco de Palma, Thomas Seegmuller. Unions, wage differential and indeterminacy. Research in Economics, 2004, 58 (3), pp.205-218. ⟨10.1016/j.rie.2004.03.001⟩. ⟨halshs-00194137⟩
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