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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments

Addison, John T. - 2019

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …

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Minimum Wage and Collective Bargaining Reforms : A Narrative Database for Advance Economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...

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Wage Bargaining and Employment Revisited : Separability and Efficiency in Collective Bargaining

Haake, Claus-Jochen - 2020

We analyse the two-dimensional Nash bargaining solution (NBS) deploying a standard labour market negotiations model (McDonald and Solow, 1981). We show that the two-dimensional bargaining problem can be decomposed into two one-dimensional problems such that the two solutions together replicate...

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Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining : Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe on collective bargaining coverage of German plants in the period 1996--2008. We exploit cross-industry variation in trade exposure and use trade flows of other...

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Labour market institutions and their effect on labour market performance in the new EU member countries

Fialová, Kamila; Schneider, Ondřej - 2008

European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects …

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Pledge-and-Review Bargaining

Harstad, Bård - 2019

Real-world negotiations differ fundamentally from existing bargaining theory. Inspired by the Paris Agreement on climate change, this paper develops a novel bargaining game in which each party quantities its own contribution (to a public good, for example), before the set of pledges must be...

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Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining

Belloc, Marianna - 2020

In this paper, we estimate the urban wage premia (UWP) in Italy, with its economy characterized by the interplay between collective bargaining and spatial heterogeneity in the cost of living. We implement a reduced-form regression analysis using both nominal and real (in temporal and spatial...

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The Bargaining Trap

Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian - 2022

I revisit the Rubinstein (1982) model for the classic problem of price haggling and show that bargaining can become a “trap,” where equilibrium leaves one party strictly worse off than if no transaction took place (e.g., the equilibrium price exceeds a buyer’s valuation). This arises when...

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Will Markets Provide Humane Jobs? A Hypothesis

Nekoei, Arash - 2022

Most of the key amenities of our today jobs did not emerge in private contracts; instead, they appeared in collective agreements and regulations. I argue that understanding this observation can guide the provision of future amenities. I show that markets underprovide an amenity if workers who...

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Wage Bargaining and Labor Market Policy with Biased Expectations

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

Recent research documents mounting evidence for sizable and persistent biases in individual labor market expectations. This paper incorporates subjective expectations into a general equilibrium labor market model and studies the implications of biased expectations for wage bargaining, vacancy...

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