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- Title
Green Trade Unions: Structure, Wages and Environmental Technology.
- Authors
Asproudis, Elias; Gil-Moltó, Maria
- Abstract
This paper investigates the effect of trade union structure on firms' technological choices when unions care about environmental protection. We compare a decentralized with a centralized union structure in a Cournot duopoly. Our results suggest that a decentralized structure provides higher incentives for the investment in cleaner technologies, although emissions may be lower under a centralized structure. The effect of the environmental damage parameter on wages and output may be non-monotonic.
- Subjects
LABOR unions; ECONOMIC structure; WAGES; GREEN technology; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; INVESTMENTS; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Environmental & Resource Economics, 2015, Vol 60, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
0924-6460
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10640-014-9768-x