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Title: Endogenous Distortions in Product and Labour Markets

Author(s): Martin Rama and Guido Tabellini

Publication Date: February 1995

Keyword(s): Lobbying, Minimum Wage and Social Pact

Programme Area(s): Human Resources and International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper uses the common agency approach to analyse the joint determination of product and labour market distortions in a small (developing) open economy. Capital owners and union members lobby the government on both tariffs and minimum wages, while other factors of production are not organized. The paper shows that product and labour market distortions move in the same direction in response to changes in economic and political parameters, and that their level is not modified by social pacts between capital and labour. It also shows that conditionality by foreign agencies should target product market distortions, not labour market distortions.

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Rama, M and Tabellini, G. 1995. 'Endogenous Distortions in Product and Labour Markets'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1143