Short-term contracts and exogenous productivity growth are introduced in asimple wage bargaining model. The equilibrium … credible, but neverwhen strike is not credible. In the limit as time between bargaining roundsvanishes only the first paradox …

collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …

, union density at the workplace, if not the presence of collective bargaining, is directly associated with strike incidence. …

2050, while the average age of employees will increase. The consequence is a great need for new collective bargaining … enough room for negotiation at the establishment level. Qualitative collective bargaining needs to contribute to making …

involved in collective wage bargaining have it in their power to create the negotiating leeway needed by companies if they are … to introduce profit sharing. Indeed, in some fields of collective bargaining the first steps have already been taken. …

bargaining process - was too fierce or if the establishments bound by the agreement failed to abide by it. In the end, it was not …-Legien Agreement, that the final breakthrough leading to industry-wide wage agreements was achieved. By this time the bargaining … parties were united in their determination to push back the influence of the state in favour of free collective bargaining …

and the level at which collective bargaining is conducted. Attention is also paid to the quality of industrial relations …. There is also some indication that collective bargaining at levels higher than the company can exacerbate strike activity … but this effect does not persist, possibly because of decentralization and the development of hybrid bargaining structures …

from or entering into collective bargaining. Our estimation strategy hinges upon the identification of comparable groups of …