Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity

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Main Author: Lommerud, Kjell Erik
Publication Date: 2007
Other Authors: Straume, Odd Rune
Format: Article
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/7190
Summary: We thank seminar participants at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Nottingham, for helpful comments and suggestions.
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spelling Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurityTechnology adoptionGlobalisationTrade unionsEmployment protectionFlexicurityWe thank seminar participants at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Nottingham, for helpful comments and suggestions.We analyse how di.erent labour market institutions — employment protection versus ‘flexicurity’ — a.ect technology adoption in unionised firms. The analysis is cast in a setting of corporate globalisation, where domestic unionised labour face the double threat of labour-saving technological innovations and international outsourcing of domestic production. In the main part of the analysis, we analyse trade unions’ incentives to oppose or endorse the adoption of new technology. Our main result is that both weaker employment protection and a higher reservation wage for unionised workers (interpreted as increased ‘flexicurity’) contribute to making trade unions more willing to accept labour-saving technological change. Furthermore, these e.ects are reinforced by globalisation. In an extension to the main analysis, we endogenise the technological progress by studying firms’ incentives to invest in new technology and find that these incentives are also generally strengthened in a labour market with more ‘flexicurity’.Universidade do Minho. Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas (NIPE)Universidade do MinhoLommerud, Kjell ErikStraume, Odd Rune20072007-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/7190engNIPE Working Paper series; 25info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAP2024-05-11T05:48:41Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/7190Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-28T15:31:06.505862Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity
title Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity
spellingShingle Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity
Lommerud, Kjell Erik
Technology adoption
Globalisation
Trade unions
Employment protection
Flexicurity
title_short Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity
title_full Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity
title_fullStr Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity
title_full_unstemmed Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity
title_sort Technology resistance and globalisation with trade unions: the choice between employment protection and flexicurity
author Lommerud, Kjell Erik
author_facet Lommerud, Kjell Erik
Straume, Odd Rune
author_role author
author2 Straume, Odd Rune
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Lommerud, Kjell Erik
Straume, Odd Rune
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Technology adoption
Globalisation
Trade unions
Employment protection
Flexicurity
topic Technology adoption
Globalisation
Trade unions
Employment protection
Flexicurity
description We thank seminar participants at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Nottingham, for helpful comments and suggestions.
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