We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all …), proposals are balanced only if both groups have veto power (iii) negotiations often fail if the decision environment gives …

. This paper studies the determination of these payments. We analyze the problem of joint bargaining over wages and severance … workers, in which we assume that workers may be unionized and that bargaining is over wages and severance pay. Bargaining …

A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour … is similar in both economies, the share of part-time work is larger. -- model of search and matching ; bargaining …

-contractible but can be included in extended collective bargaining when workers participate in management, but employment is still … traditional bargaining over wages to extended (but still second-best) bargaining can generate a Pareto welfare improvement. -- job …-satisfaction; bargaining ; unemployment …

We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …

wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … the theory with workplace data for Britain and Norway. Results are consistent with the theory: local union bargaining is … positively associated with product innovations in both countries. In Norway, local union bargaining is also positively associated …

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of … collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …

negotiations take place. We show that, in the absence of any distortion, sector-level bargaining ought to be less efficient than … bargaining taking place at the other levels. It follows that the introduction of labor market policies as a combination of … level at which bargaining takes place and the labor market performance is far more conditional than most studies acknowledge. …

International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail …