For a two-period screening model of strikes it is shown that joint bargaining instead of enterprise negotiations lowers …

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

bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. -- Employment ; trade union …

. -- Trade union membership ; social custom ; wage bargaining …

If input markets are competitive and output per firm declines with the number of firms (business stealing effect …), there will be excessive entry into a Cournot oligopoly for a homogeneous commodity. However, input markets are often … imperfectly competitive and the price of labor is determined by collective bargaining. The resulting rise in wages reduces output …

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that …

We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that …