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质量、工会与选择：工会化的影响
Quality, trade unions and selection: the impact of unionization
摘要
This paper investigates how changes in the bargaining power of trade unions affect firm-level innovation through their impact on quality investment, within a model of heterogeneous firms. In a closed economy setting, we find that an increase in union bargaining power reduces average quality investment at the industry level. However, the effect is heterogeneous across firms: more productive firms decrease their investment in quality, while less productive firms increase it. These findings are confirmed in an open economy context, where we also find that stronger union power reduces the quality of exported goods but leads to an increase in the quality of imported goods.
中文摘要
本文在一个异质性企业模型中考察了工会谈判能力的变化如何通过影响质量投资进而作用于企业层面的创新。在封闭经济设定下，我们发现工会谈判能力的增强会降低行业层面的平均质量投资。然而，这一效应在不同企业之间存在异质性：生产率较高的企业会减少其质量投资，而生产率较低的企业则会增加质量投资。这些发现在开放经济背景下得到了印证，并且我们还发现，更强的工会力量会降低出口品的质量，但会提高进口品的质量。