TY  - GEN
A1  - Sanner, Helge
T1  - Imperfect goods and labor markets, and the union wage gap
N2  - Existing theoretical literature fails to explain satisfactorily the differences between the pay of workers that are covered by collective agreements and others who are not. This study aims at providing a model framework which is amenable for an analysis of this issue. Our general-equilibrium approach integrates a dual labor market and a two-sector product market. The results suggest that the so-called 'union wage gap' is largely determined by the degree of centralization of the bargains, and, to a somewhat lesser extent, by the expenditure share of the unionized sector's goods.
KW  - Verhandlungstheorie
KW  - Monopolistische Konkurrenz
KW  - Gewerkschaften
KW  - union wage premium
KW  - comparative analysis
KW  - wage differentials
KW  - dual labor market
KW  - monopolistic competition
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6511
ER  -