Arbeitspapier

Increased Price Markup from Union Coordination. OECD Panel Evidence

Existing literature have focused on the influence of institutional factors on wage determination when explaining the prolonged cross-country differences in unemployment. Although coordination of wage bargaining probably affects entry barriers and competition in product markets as well, research on price determination has typically not considered such factors. In this paper, an imperfect competition model - where the price markup depends on coordination of wage bargaining (and relative prices) - is set up and estimated on a panel of 15 OECD-countries. We derive a hypothesis that coordination has two separate effects on prices, i.e. an indirect effect through its effect on wages and a direct effect on the price markup. The estimates show that when we correct for the effect of coordination on wages, consumer prices may be as much as 21 percent higher in countries like Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Austria and Norway as compared to Canada, the US and the UK, due to the effect of coordination on the price markup. Since coordination probably has a dampening effect on wages, this may explain why many researchers have been unable to find any clear effect of coordination on unemployment in reduced form analysis.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 470

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
Thema
Imperfect competition model
price markup
labor market institutions
unemployment
panel data model.

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bjørnstad, Roger
Kalstad, Kjartan Øren
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Statistics Norway, Research Department
(wo)
Oslo
(wann)
2006

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bjørnstad, Roger
  • Kalstad, Kjartan Øren
  • Statistics Norway, Research Department

Entstanden

  • 2006

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