The article addresses the question whether or not the trend towards the decentralisation of collective bargaining on …

utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earningsrelationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages …

bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. -- Employment ; trade union …

Collective bargaining in the German metal and electrical engineering (M+E) industries has undergone a phase of … considerable development since the 1990s. The profound changes which underwent collective bargaining in M+E over the last two … restructuring which shaped the bargaining agenda. This discussion paper examines these developments, putting a special focus on the …

For a two-period screening model of strikes it is shown that joint bargaining instead of enterprise negotiations lowers …

. -- Trade union membership ; social custom ; wage bargaining …

. Because of the declining bargaining coverage, calls for a stabilisation of the collective bargaining system are increasing. In …

imperfectly competitive and the price of labor is determined by collective bargaining. The resulting rise in wages reduces output … and profits and can deter entry. We analyze under which conditions greater bargaining power by the trade union reduces … entry and raises welfare. Furthermore, we show that collective bargaining loosens the linkage between business stealing and …