This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

five workers is a union member, and it is now moot whether this degree of penetration is consistent with a corporatist … model built on encompassing unions. The decline in union membership and density is attributable to external forces that have …

are embedded, may tip the balance in favor of a beneficial union effect. In the present paper, we assemble nationally …

union representation. Using linked employer-employee data, our estimation strategy hinges upon the identification of …

Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees …