Should firms allow workers to participate in R&D investment?

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Should firms allow workers to participate in R&D investment?

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Ma. Luz Campo () (Departamento de Fundamentos del Analisis Economico, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)

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María Luz Campo

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This paper analyzes if the introduction of new technologies in unionized firms, should be chosen unilaterally by the firm or negotiated with the union. The results show that firms prefer to choose the level of R&D or they prefer to negotiate it with their workers, depending of the R&D cost. According to the social welfare, it is better that firms negotiate with workers this decision, therefore the social planner must take correct steps so that firms bargain the investment in R&D with their workers.

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Paper provided by Universidad del País Vasco - Departamento de Economía Aplicada III (Econometría y Estadística) in its series BILTOKI with number 199910.

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Date of creation: 25 Oct 1999
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Handle: RePEc:ehu:biltok:199910

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J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
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O32 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2000-01-24 (All new papers)
NEP-FIN-2000-01-24 (Finance)
NEP-INO-2000-01-24 (Innovation)
NEP-LAB-2000-01-24 (Labour Economics)
NEP-TID-2000-01-24 (Technology & Industrial Dynamics)

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