Inducing political action by workers

作者: Bruno De Borger , Amihai Glazer

DOI: 10.1002/SOEJ.12046

关键词: EconomicsProfit (economics)PoliticsRecessionIncentiveLabour economicsWagePolitical action

摘要: A firm aiming to influence a governmental policy may benefit from political action by its stakeholders, such as workers. This article studies the behavior of firm, showing that workers will have greater incentive engage in costly activity against their number and higher wage. The may, therefore, profit paying above-market wages hiring what might appear be an inefficiently large And because unions overcome free-rider problems uncoordinated effort, favor unionization, or less opposed unionization than it would otherwise be. results this can also explain why firms little reduce recession, paid unionized do not survival rates these firms.

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