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. -- workers' bargaining power ; mark …

accounting approach and the standard labor economics approach are compatible with distinct labor bargaining settings (right …-to-manage, efficient bargaining, labor hoarding) whereas the productivity approach hinges on the assumption of efficient bargaining. Across … comparable range. We interpret the latter finding as lending empirical support to efficient bargaining as the nature of the …

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

We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over … wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract under binding risk-neutral efficient bargaining. We also demonstrate … with the coalitional structure that follows from unionization. -- collective bargaining ; union ; firm ; bargaining power …

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 …

In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover … inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …

-up and workers' bargaining power parameters among 18 sectors within the manufacturing industry as well as the relationship …. These findings are confirmed in the sectoral analysis. Sectors with higher workers' bargaining power typically show higher …

collective bargaining agreements, to study the interactions between wage floors and wage cushions and quantify the impact of …

This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace codetermination through works councils shape …