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Market Structure, Strike Activity, and Union Wage Settlements

Abowd, John M.; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2021

We attempt a synthesis of the industrial relations market structure hypothesis with the modern asymmetric information theory of wage and strike outcomes The industrial relations literature contains a variety of arguments indicating that wage settlements should be positively related to the degree...

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Individual Rights and Collective Agents : The Role of Old and New Workplace Institutions in the Regulation of Labor Markets

Weil, David - 2021

Implementation of workplace policies--whether through enforcement of laws or administration of programs--raises the question of the interaction between institutions created to carry out laws and the activities of workplace based agents that directly (e.g. unions) or indirectly (e.g. insurance...

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Bargaining Power, Strike Duration, and Wage Outcomes : an Analysis of Strikes in the 1880s

Card, David; Olson, Craig A. - 2021

We study strike durations and outcomes for some 2000 disputes that occurred between 1881 and 1886. Most post-strike bargaining settlements in the 1880s fell into one of two categories: either a union "victory", characterized by a significant wage gain or hours cut, or a union "defeat",...

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The Effect of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Strikes and Wages

Cramton, Peter; Gunderson, Morley; Tracy, Joseph S. - 2022

Using Canadian data on large, private-sector contract negotiations from January 1967 to March 1993, we find that wages …

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Strategic Investment in a Debt Bargaining Framework

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

This paper analyzes the strategic role of investment from a debtor country's perspective. The framework is one in which, if the debtor country is unable to meet debt obligations, a bargaining regime determines the amount of debt repayment. In the context of a two-country real trade model, debt...

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How Bargaining in Marriage Drives Marriage Market Equilibrium

Pollak, Robert A. - 2017

This paper investigates marriage market equilibrium under the assumption that Bargaining In Marriage (BIM) determines allocation within marriage. Prospective spouses, when they meet in the marriage market, are assumed to foresee the outcome of BIM and rank prospective spouses on the basis of the...

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Search Frictions and Market Power in Negotiated Price Markets

Allen, Jason - 2014

This paper develops and estimates a search and bargaining model designed to measure the welfare loss associated with frictions in oligopoly markets with negotiated prices. We use the model to quantify the consumer surplus loss induced by the presence of search frictions in the Canadian mortgage...

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Collective Action in an Asymmetric World

Chen, Cuicui - 2016

A central authority possessing tax and expenditure responsibilities can readily provide an efficient level of a public good. Absent a central authority, voluntary arrangements must replace coercive ones. Significant under-provision must be expected. International public goods are particularly...

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Sequential Bargaining in the Field : Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions

Backus, Matthew - 2018

We study patterns of behavior in bilateral bargaining situations using a rich, new dataset describing over 88 million listings from eBay's Best Offer platform, with back-and-forth bargaining occurring in over 25 million of these listings. We document patterns of behavior and relate them to...

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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks

Chen, Tain-Jy; Liu, Meng-Chun - 2021

This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the … negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 … areas where U.S. domestic interests are homogeneous and concentrated. Even in the case of tariff negotiations where any …

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