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Unionisation and Foreign Direct Investment: Challenging Conventional Wisdom?

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Leahy, Dermot
Montagna, Catia

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This paper investigates the effects of different degrees of wage setting centralisation on the incentive of a MNE to locate in a host country, and on the host country's welfare. Decentralised and centralised wage bargaining are considered. The nature of product market competition between the MNE and domestic firms proves crucial to results which cast doubt on some of the conventional wisdom on FDI. In particular, we show that: (i) it is not always welfare improving to attract inward FDI, and (ii) the MNE may prefer centralised to decentralised wage setting regimes.

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Volume (Year): 110 (2000)
Issue (Month): 462 (March)
Pages: C80-92
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  1. Dermot Leahy & Catia Montagna, 2005. "Union Bargaining Power, Social Dumping, and Foreign Direct Investment," International Trade 0510001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  2. Junichiro Ishida & Noriaki Matsushima, 2008. "Domestic Competition and Foreign Direct Investment in Unionized Oligopoly," ISER Discussion Paper 0757, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, revised Oct 2009. [Downloadable!]
  3. McGuinness, Seamus & Kelly, Elish & O'Connell, Philip J., 2008. "The Impact of Wage Bargaining Regime on Firm-Level Competitiveness and Wage Inequality: The Case of Ireland," Papers WP266, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). [Downloadable!]
  4. Dermot Leahy & Catia Montagna, 2005. "Union legislation and export platform FDI," Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 14(4), pages 437-452, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Kangsik, Choi, 2008. "Cournot-Bertrand competition in a unionized mixed duopoly," MPRA Paper 12787, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 26 Dec 2008. [Downloadable!]
  6. Erkki Koskela & Ronnie Schöb, 2008. "Outsourcing of Unionized Firms and the Impacts of Labour Market Policy Reforms," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Choi, Kangsik, 2008. "Comparing Cournot and Bertrand Competition in a Unionized Mixed Duopoly," MPRA Paper 15468, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 27 May 2009. [Downloadable!]
  8. Carsten Eckel & Hartmut Egger, 2006. "Wage Bargaining and Multinational Firms in General Equilibrium," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
  9. Choi, Kangsik, 2009. "Government's Preference and Timing of Endogenous Wage Setting: Perspectives on Privatization and Mixed Duopoly," MPRA Paper 17221, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  10. Dermot Leahy, Catia Montagna, 2000. "Temporary social dumping, union legalisation and FDI: a note on the strategic use of standards," Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 9(3), pages 243-259, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  11. Junichiro Ishida & Noriaki Matsushima, 2005. "FDI may help rival firms," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 6(22), pages 1-8. [Downloadable!]
  12. Kangsik, Choi, 2009. "Privatization, Government's Preference and Unionization Structure: A Mixed Oligopoly Approach," MPRA Paper 13028, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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