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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets
Weil, David - 2003
Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...
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The Effect of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Strikes and Wages
Cramton, Peter C. - 1995
Using Canadian data on large, private-sector contract negotiations from January 1967 to March 1993, we find that wages …
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Bargaining Power, Strike Duration, and Wage Outcomes : An Analysis of Strikes in the 1880s
Card, David - 1992
We study strike durations and outcomes for some 2000 disputes that occurred between 1881 and 1886. Most post-strike bargaining settlements in the 1880s fell into one of two categories: either a union "victory", characterized by a significant wage gain or hours cut, or a union "defeat",...
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Market Structure, Strike Activity, and Union Wage Settlements
Abowd, John M. - 1988
We attempt a synthesis of the industrial relations market structure hypothesis with the modern asymmetric information theory of wage and strike outcomes The industrial relations literature contains a variety of arguments indicating that wage settlements should be positively related to the degree...
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Intermediaries in Bargaining : Evidence from Business-to-Business Used-Car Inventory Negotiations
Larsen, Bradley J.; Lu, Hengheng; Zhang, Anthony Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze data on tens of thousands of alternating-offer, business-to-business negotiations in the wholesale used … mediating the negotiations. We find that who intermediates the negotiation matters: high-performing mediators are 22.03% more … negotiations, overcoming some of the inefficiency inherent in incomplete-information settings …
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Work Rules, Featherbedding, and Pareto-Optimal Union Management Bargaining
Johnson, George E. - 1986
the case of negotiations over work rules and wages than in both the cases of fully efficient bargaining and of bargaining …
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Game Modelling the Tokyo Round of Tariff Negotiations
Baldwin, Robert E. - 1985
Using actual trade and tariff data for the United States and the European Community, this paper demonstrates how a trade negotiation such as the Tokyo Round, can be modelled as a game among countries attempting to minimize individual welfare loss functions. Once welfare functions are...
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Communication and Bargaining Breakdown : An Empirical Analysis
Backus, Matthew - 2020
Bargaining breakdown--whether as delay, conflict, or missing trade--plagues bargaining in environments with incomplete information. Can a bargaining environment that facilitates or restricts communication alleviate these costs? We exploit a unique opportunity to study this question using real...
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Strategic Bargaining Behavior, Self-Serving Biases, and the Role of Expert Agents : An Empirical Study of Final-Offer Arbitration
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2005
In this paper we study the complete evolution of a final-offer arbitration system used in New Jersey with data we have systematically collected over the 18-year life of the program. Covering the wages of police officers and firefighters, this system provides virtually a laboratory setting for...
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Negotiating Free Trade
Aghion, Philippe - 2004
We develop a dynamic bargaining model in which a leading country endogenously decides whether to sequentially negotiate free trade agreements with subsets of countries or engage in simultaneous multilateral bargaining with all countries at once. We show how the structure of coalition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467968