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 …

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 …

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 …

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that …

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that …

bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo … variable entity. We use linkedemployer-employee data for Germany and analyse the effect of collective bargaining coverage on … employment growth in German plants. We find a robust and negative correlation between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining …