Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed …. -- trade union power ; wage bargaining ; labour share ; Germany …

that unions were engaged in concession bargaining. Overall, our results challenge the common view that trade unions in the …

This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining …

workers are unionized and their wages depend on relative union bargaining power. If this power is high enough, then there is …

This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds … equilibrium is equivalent to the efficient bargaining outcome. In a dynamic framework with search frictions, we demonstrate that … gradual collective wage bargaining coincides with all-or-nothing bargaining when bargaining takes place in fictitious time …

bargaining (i.e. reducing between-sector differentials) and/or local bargaining (i.e. reducing within-establishment inequality …-employees data-set, surveyed in 1995 by Eurostat. We pay great care to the potential endogeneity of local bargaining, and we find … that the widespread adoption of local bargaining, by reducing the implicit price of individual characteristics, effectively …