This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed … results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …. The results show that union power was relatively stable in the 1990s but fell substantially (by almost one-third) from …

policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its … bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers choose their union, permitting a difference-in-differences design to study …

This survey shows that union membership and density as well as bargaining coverage have fallen in most countries and … the sectoral structure of the economy and the composition of the workforce have played a role, their contribution to union … in various parts of the world poses a challenge to union recruitment. Union density and bargaining coverage are related …

as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We investigate the impact of such a … 'gradual' union on the wage-employment contract in an economy with concave production. In a static framework, the resulting …