Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had … its day. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have recently called for the removal of bargaining rights from workers … in the name of wage and employment flexibility, yet unions often work in tandem with employers for mutual gain based on …

the labour union behaviour in the wage bargaining process as such an alternative. The explanation is based on the … demand. Thus, the bargaining power of unions is related to the capital-labour ratio. This paper provides some tests for these … hypotheses with panel data for Finnish companies. The results give support to the wage bargaining hypothesis. …

This paper focuses on the relationship between higher wages and capital intensity. The relationship itself is by no … on its exact nature. Our explanation is the outcome of the wage bargaining process in the case of capital … easily give in for union wage demand. In other words, the bargaining power of unions is related to the capital-labor ratio …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …

Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and … employment. Unions typically increase wages and other working conditions for their members and often all employees working in … working similar jobs. At the same time, wages are higher in firms under collective bargaining, even in similar firms in the …

bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective … bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent … works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …

inequality for women. At the establishment level, we compare average wages under firm-level and sectoral bargaining, controlling …-specific contracting raises average wages, with a pattern of effects that tends to increase inequality relative to sectoral bargaining for …In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover …