Abstract

Wages frequently remain high in industries thrown into permanent decline. Previous analyses based on arbitrary wage rigidities have concluded that some degree of subsidization of the declining industry is warranted on efficiency grounds. The present paper proposes as an alternative an efficient bargaining model that generates wage stickiness and inefficiently low levels of intersectoral labor transfer. Expanding rather than declining sectors should be assisted under these circumstances.

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