Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 212: Labour market imperfections, international integration and selection

TY - UNPB

T1 - Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 212

T2 - Labour market imperfections, international integration and selection

AU - Montagna, Catia

AU - Nocco, Antonella

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - Although a large body of literature has focused on the effects of intra-firm differences on export performance, relatively little attention has been devoted to the interaction between firms'selection and international performance and labour market institutions - in contrast with the centrality of the latter to current policy and public debates on the implications of economic globalisation for national policies and institutions. In this paper, we study the effects of labour market unionisation on the process of competitive selection between heterogeneous firms and analyse how the interaction between the two is affected by trade liberalisation between countries with different unionisation patterns.

AB - Although a large body of literature has focused on the effects of intra-firm differences on export performance, relatively little attention has been devoted to the interaction between firms'selection and international performance and labour market institutions - in contrast with the centrality of the latter to current policy and public debates on the implications of economic globalisation for national policies and institutions. In this paper, we study the effects of labour market unionisation on the process of competitive selection between heterogeneous firms and analyse how the interaction between the two is affected by trade liberalisation between countries with different unionisation patterns.

KW - Firm selection

KW - Labour market unionisation

KW - Gains from trade

M3 - Discussion paper

T3 - Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics

BT - Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 212

PB - University of Dundee

ER -