union which cares for wages and employment, we determine a range of trade union objectives and characterize the aggregate …

efficiently according to the familiar Nash bargaining solution, we show that central negotiations lead to a lower employment level … result counters the critique that efficient negotiations result in employment levels exceeding the competitive level …

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

bargained wages, we show that such minimum wages can drive up wages – and be harmful to employment – when bargaining follows the …Common wisdom holds that the introduction of a non-binding minimum wage is irrelevant for actual wages and employment … bargaining models between unions and firms. While the Nash bargaining solution is unaffected by minimum wages below initially …

vast majority of countries. This contradicts the predictions of a widely-cited family of models of labor market bargaining …