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Trade Unions go global!

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Alejandro Donado
Klaus Wälde

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Worker movements played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Workplace safety is costly for firms but increases labour supply. A laissez-faire approach leav- ing safety of workplaces unknown is suboptimal. Safety standards set by better- informed trade unions are output and welfare increasing. Trade between a country with trade unions (the North) and a union-free country (the South) can imply a reduction in work standards in the North. When trade unions are established in the South, the North, including northern unions, tend to lose. Quantitatively, these effects are small and overcompensated by gains in the South.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of Glasgow in its series Working Papers with number 2008_22.

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Keywords: occupational health and safety; trade unions; international trade; welfare;

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J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions
F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements

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