The Costs and Benefits of Various Wage Bargaining Structures : An Empirical Exploration /

The literature on the relationship between the unemployment rate and wage bargaining fails to separate the offsetting effects of a reduction in competition associated with centralized bargaining and the increased awareness of unemployment externalities. This paper uses OECD data to distinguish these...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Alun
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/071
Online Access:Full text available on IMF