Jörg Lingens

Union Wage Bargaining and Economic Growth

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Produktbeschreibung

Unemployment is still the most pressing economic problem in Europe. It is consensus among most economists that the major fraction of the unemployment problem is not caused by short term business cycle factors, but is caused by structural problems. Thus, unemployment in Europe is a long term phenomenon. With this the question arises whether unemployment also affects the rate of growth of an economy. This book offers a unified approach to analyse this question by incorporating union wage bargaining into a wide variety of growth models. It is shown that unions might foster economic growth, but this result is very sensitive to the exact specification of the model under consideration. In general, imperfect labour markets have an effect on the rate of growth and as such should be considered relevant when thinking about economic growth.

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Writing a book is not possible without the generous input of many people. It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to thank at least some of these people. Prof. Dr. Jochen Michaelis, the supervisor of my dissertation, taught me how to do economic analysis and initiated my interest in labour market is sues. Discussions with him have always been enlightening and have greatly improved the analysis in this book. Moreover, he always encouraged me when I experienced a slump in my motivation. He never lost his calmness and good temper, not even in situations when my need for discussion must have been bothering him. Thanks for that Jochen. I'm indebted to Prof. Dr. Peter Weise for taking over the job as the sec ond referee of my thesis. He gave very valuable comments and sacrificed his christmas holiday to write the referee report as fast as possible. I also want to thank Prof. Stefan Voigt and Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kosfeld, the other two members of the dissertation committee, for the discussion during the defence of the thesis.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 542
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-21522-6
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9783540215226
• ISBN-10: 3540215220
• Artikelnr.: 12732467

Autorenporträt

Jörg Lingens, University of Regensburg, Germany

Inhaltsangabe

I Introduction.- I Introduction.- II Bargaining Theory.- 1 Static Bargaining Models.- 2 Dynamic Wage Bargaining.- III Unions and Capital.- 3 Unions and Investment.- 4 Unions in a Solow Type Growth Model.- 5 Unions in a Diamond Type Growth Model.- 6 Unions in an AK Model.- 7 Summary.- IV Unions and Creative Destruction.- 8 The Growth Model.- 9 Union Wage Bargaining.- 10 Appendix.- V Unions and Expanding Product Variety.- 11 One Sector Bargaining.- 12 Tax Policy.- 13 Simultaneous Wage Bargaining.- VI Unions, Labour Productivity and Dual Labour Markets.- 14 An OLG Model with Growing Labour Productivity.- 15 An Infinite Horizon Model with Growing Labour Productivity.- VII Summary and Conclusion.- VII Summary and Conclusion.- References.