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We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all …
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The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are … wage is determined via bargaining and employment determined subsequently and unilaterally by the firm. This paper reports … an experiment in which the choice of the bargaining agenda is endogenous within a noncooperative game. We find that …
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We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …
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In his classic article "An Essay on Bargaining" Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength … rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …. -- strategic ignorance ; bargaining ; intentions ; experiment …
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We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...
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The "joint costs" model states that the incentive to strike is inversely related to the total costs associated with workers' and firms' strike activities. Not only has this model been tested with mixed results, but also the joint costs model is problematic in explaining several stylized facts in...
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Despite recent advances, no general methods for computing bargaining power in non-cooperative games exist. We propose a … applications to cartel formation, the non-cooperative model of the household, and legislative bargaining. …
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function can be explained by Nash bargaining between workers and employers. Under fairly mild assumptions, Nash bargaining … exceed the wage reward. This paper reviews the established empirical regularities and then provides Nash bargaining results … that explain these regularities. -- overeducation ; undereducation ; Nash bargaining ; qualitative mismatches ; Mincer …
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We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a … enters bargaining directly. Our results lend support to the tendency towards decentralisation of pay bargaining in the public …
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In this paper we derive an explicit model of negotiations between spouses when utility is (partially) transferable only in case of separation. We show that inefficient separation may occur in equilibrium even under consensual divorce law. This provides theoretical support for the view that...
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