A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour …

heterogeneous effects. The impact of trade on wages varies across bargaining regimes. In firms with collective bargaining, the … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains … associated with collective bargaining are similar across worker categories …

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 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 …

utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earningsrelationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages …

bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage …

This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage … decentralization. We find a wage premium associated with firm-level bargaining relative to sector-level bargaining, and that the return … are more dispersed under firm-level bargaining compared to more centralized wage-setting systems …

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 …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points … shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …