Competitiveness and Product Market Integration

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This article develops a two-country, two-sector model with imperfect competition in one sector and asymmetric labor market structures in the sense that trade unions have wage bargaining power in one country whereas the labor market is competitive in the other country. We use a new approach to model product market integration, and it turns out that the unionized country gains from integration in terms of welfare, and, if the initial level of integration is relatively low, experiences an increase in employment and investment.
Original languageEnglish
JournalOpen Economies Review
Volume11
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)359-381
Number of pages23
ISSN0923-7992
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2000
Externally publishedYes

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