Title: Wage formation in a unionized economy /
Authors: Uddén-Jondal, Eva.
Publisher: School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Collective bargaining Sweden.; Wages Sweden Mathematical models.; Industrial relations Sweden
Contents: 1. Introduction and Summary -- Pt. I. Wage Formation When Workers Are Heterogeneous and Experience Envy -- 2. Decentralized Wage Setting -- a reference case -- 3. Centralized Wage Setting -- the Swedish case? -- Pt. II. Extensions and Applications for a Cobb-Douglas Production Technology -- 4. Wage Formation and the Impact of Envy -- 5. Egalitarian Wage Policy and Wage Drift -- App. A1. Demand of labor -- App. A2. Input substitutability and complementarity -- App. A3. Elasticities of labor demand -- App. A4. Properties of the labor demand functions in w and r -- App. A5. Properties of the labor demand functions in [theta] -- App. A6. The trade union's objective function -- App. B1. Decentralized wage setting when workers are envious -- App. B2. Centralized wage setting when workers are envious -- App. B3. Centralized wage setting: Second Order Conditions -- App. B4. Impact of envy when non-employed workers are envious as well: decentralized wage setting -- App. B5. Impact of envy when non-employed workers are envious as well: centralized wage setting.