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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 …
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This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
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Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...
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The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …, collective bargaining at sectoral level might even be pro innovative. …
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Recent studies have pointed to the association between declining collective bargaining coverage and rising overall wage …
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We study a bargaining model with a disagreement game between offers and counteroffers. In order to characterize the set …
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The Nash bargaining solution of a modified bargaining problem in the contract space yields the pair of stationary … vanishes, convergence to the Nash bargaining solution is immediate by the Maximum Theorem. Numerical implementation in standard …
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The bargaining model with stochastic order of proposing players is properly embedded in continuous time and it is … the Nash bargaining solution of a modified bargaining problem and the Maximum Theorem implies convergence to the Nash … bargaining solution when time between proposals vanishes. The model unifies alternating offers, one-sided offers and random …
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bargaining frontier. However, when players have different time preferences, intertemporal trade may lead to continuation payoffs … above the bargaining frontier. We provide a thorough study of this problem without imposing the conventional assumption. Our …
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We analyze the simplest Condorcet cycle with three players and three alternatives within a strategic bargaining model …
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