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Equilibrium Involuntary Unemployment under Oligempory

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Kaas, Leo (Department of Economics and Finance, Institute for Advanced Studies)
Madden, Paul (School of Economic Studies, Manchester University)

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We show that equilibrium involuntary unemployment emerges in a multi-stage game model where all market power resides with firms, on both the labour and the output market. Firms decide wages, employment, output and prices, and under constant returns there exists a continuum of subgame perfect equilibria involving unemployment. A firm does not undercut the equilibrium wage since then high wage firms would attract its workers, thus forcing the low wage firm out of both markets. Full employment equilibria may also exist, but only the involuntary unemployment equilibria are robust to decreasing returns.

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Paper provided by Institute for Advanced Studies in its series Economics Series with number 68.

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Keywords: Involuntary unemployment; Multi-stage game; Imperfect competition;

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D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
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  1. L Kaas & P Madden, 2002. "Competitive Wage Cycles with Imperfect Output Market Competition," Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research Discussion Paper Series 19, Economics, The Univeristy of Manchester. [Downloadable!]
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