manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and workers’ bargaining power parameters according to sector, firm size and … period. We find a significant drop in both the mark-up and the workers’ bargaining power in the mid-nineties. In the second … significantly contributed to the decrease in both mark-ups and workers’ bargaining power. …

Short-term contracts and exogenous productivity growth are introduced in asimple wage bargaining model. The equilibrium … credible, but neverwhen strike is not credible. In the limit as time between bargaining roundsvanishes only the first paradox …

status, but by the bargaining regime. Four bargaining regimes can be distinguished: (i) company level bargaining, (ii …) industry level bargaining, (iii) mandatory extension of an industry agreement, and (iv) no collective bargaining. Acknowledging … firms' bargaining regime, we find small differences between the four regimes, and certainly no distinction between "covered …