The War of Models: Determination of Wages and Employment in Swedish Private Sector

Journal title STUDI ECONOMICI
Author/s Robert Plasman, François Rycx
Publishing Year 1 Issue 2001/73
Language English Pages 19 P. File size 184 KB
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<i> The War of Models: Determination of Wages and Employment in Swedish Private Sector </i> (di Robert Plasman, François Rycx) - ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to discriminate between competing models of wage and employment determination (right-to-manage, efficient bargaining and general bargaining models) using annual macro-data from the Swedish private sector covering the period 1960-93. Methodologically, the analysis relies on the Engle-Granger’s two-step estimation procedure and on non-nested tests. Phillips-Hansens’s non-parametric technique is used to obtain optimal and asymptotically normal long-run estimators. Our results show that the right-to-manage and the efficient bargaining models can be rejected in favour of the general bargaining model. Consequently, they stress the absence of a simple relation between the trade unions bargaining power and employment. JEL Classification: J50, C22, C52.

Robert Plasman, François Rycx, The War of Models: Determination of Wages and Employment in Swedish Private Sector in "STUDI ECONOMICI " 73/2001, pp , DOI: