Union Behavior, Industry Rents, and Optimal Policies /

This paper examines the supposed welfare gains from strategic trade and industrial policies in the U.S. steel industry. Strategic policies to capture labor rents lead to an endogenous response which greatly diminishes their importance. On the other hand, reducing domestic labor market distortions re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swagel, Phillip
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/143
Online Access:Full text available on IMF