Centralized Wage Bargaining Risks Higher Unemployment and Inflation
The paper looks at how different ways of setting wages can affect a country's economy. It considers whether having one centralized wage system or many smaller ones is better and how this might be linked to inflation. They argue that having a single, country-wide system for setting wages might not always lead to good results. It might actually make things worse, especially if the laws and rules strongly support unions in this system. As the markets for goods become more competitive, the differences between these two systems start to disappear, and how wages are set becomes less important. In a nutshell, having a centralized wage system doesn't always mean better outcomes for the economy compared to having more decentralized wage systems.