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2005年12月10日上午10:00 ~ 下午1:00

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文獻出處

International outsourcing when labour markets are unionized

Jan Rose Skaksen

Canadian Journal of Economics 2004 Vol. 37, No. 1  pp.78-94

報告人

彭正浩

參加人員

王胤杰、黃鴻、王光正、彭正浩、梁文榮 、林燕淑、胡均立、吳芝文、吳世傑、許淑瑛、曾靜枝、李玫郁、李家銘 、林晏如、高國峰、張民忠、陳盈秀、陳疆平、蔡明芳、涂光億

討論提要

We consider the implications of international outsourcing in a simple general equilibrium model where the wage rate is the outcome of negotiations between a firm and a trade union. The effects of potential, but non-realized, international outsourcing, is a reduction in the wage rate and an increase in employment. Aggregate welfare increases, but the trade union becomes worse off while owners of capital become better off. Realized international outsourcing gives rise to an increase in the wage rate and a reduction in employment. Aggregate welfare decreases, but the trade union becomes better off, while owners of capital become worse off.

結論

These results all assumes a marginal decrease in the cost of international outsourcing. A non-marginal decrease in the cost of international outsourcing, which implies that the firm begins to outsource activities, has ambiguous effects on aggregate welfare and the distribution of welfare. However, we want to emphasize the difference between potential, but non-realized, international outsourcing and realized international outsourcing. In empirical work it is obviously much easier to get information on realized international outsourcing than on potential but non-realized international outsourcing. But by focusing only on realized international outsourcing, we may miss some of the most important implications of improved opportunities for international outsourcing, namely, that it effectively changes the relative bargaining power of firms and trade unions.

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