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Title: Awareness of General Equilibrium Effects and Unemployment

Author(s): Hans Gersbach and Achim Schniewind

Publication Date: April 2005

Keyword(s): awareness of general equilibirum effects, sectoral wage bargaining and unemployment

Programme Area(s): Industrial Organization and Labour Economics

Abstract: We examine wage bargaining in a two-sector economy when the employers and labour unions in each sector are not always aware of all the general equilibrium feedback effects. We show analytically that if agents only consider labour demand effects, low real wages and low unemployment are the result. With an intermediate view, i.e. when partial equilibrium effects within a sector are taken into account, high real wages and unemployment result. If all general equilibrium effects are simultaneously considered, we once again obtain a situation of low wages and unemployment. The assumption that unions and employers' federations are unable to incorporate all feedback effects from other sectors may explain why unemployment in Europe is high.

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Gersbach, H and Schniewind, A. 2005. 'Awareness of General Equilibrium Effects and Unemployment'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5012