Publication
Mar 2010
National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, a fact widely ignored in the academic literature. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an international duopoly model with unionised labour markets. We document both positive and negative spill-over effects and discuss the benefits and costs from international policy coordination both for the case of symmetric and asymmetric labour market institutions. Our results suggest that institutional differences could sign responsible for the slow speed at which labour market policy coordination has progressed so far.
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Author | Sebastian Braun, Christian Spielmann |
Series | Kiel Institute Working Papers |
Issue | 1599 |
Publisher | Kiel Institute for the World Economy |
Copyright | © 2010 Kiel Institute for the World Economy |