Government Fiscal Efforts vs. Labour Union Strikes. Strategic Substitutes or Complements?

Quaderni - Working Paper DSE N° 1013

22 Pages Posted: 24 Jun 2015

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Massimiliano Castellani

Department of Statistics

Luca Fanelli

Universita di Bologna

Marco Savioli

Department of Economics, University of Bologna; University of Salento - Department of Economics and Mathematics and Statistics; University of Bologna - Rimini Center for Economic Analysis (RCEA)

Date Written: June 23, 2015

Abstract

To unveil the strategic interaction between the government and the labour union in a unionised economy, a policy-game model is estimated by cointegrated Vector Autoregressive system using Italian quarterly data (1960-2009) on government budget surplus (fiscal efforts), hours not worked (strikes), unemployment and real wages. The long-run cointegration relationships are interpreted as the players' reaction functions and the long-run equilibrium as the equilibrium of the game. The identification of the long-run cointegration relationships allows indeed to determine if efforts and strikes are strategic complements or strategic substitutes. Finally, speed of long-run adjustment provides insights about the effectiveness of government and labour union strategies.

Keywords: Fiscal efforts, strikes, strategic substitutes, policy-game, speed of adjustment

JEL Classification: E62, J51, C72, C54, C32

Suggested Citation

Castellani, Massimiliano and Fanelli, Luca and Savioli, Marco and Savioli, Marco, Government Fiscal Efforts vs. Labour Union Strikes. Strategic Substitutes or Complements? (June 23, 2015). Quaderni - Working Paper DSE N° 1013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2622033 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2622033

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