; bargaining centralization …

The area-wide wage agreement is at the centre of Germany s system of collective bargaining. In recent years, however …, there has been a tendency towards the decentralisation of collective bargaining. Individual wage agreements have led to more … had this moderating effect. On the other hand, collective bargaining has become more flexible. The further …

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

Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in … to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize those stylized facts using a partial equilibrium model that allows us to … evaluate firms' value functions under individual or collective bargaining. Exporting further decreases average production costs …

We show the effects of the bargaining power of labour unions on product innovation under decentralised and centralised … wage bargaining. In this context, we show the implications of preference function, which affects the market size. A higher … union bargaining power increases innovation if bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak and the cost …

, using macrodata and microdata. Macrodata show that greater coverage by centralized collective bargaining institutions raises …

-win outcomes, where the default is unresolved outcomes. Higher union density is associated with worker wins, collective bargaining …

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining …