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incentives than "coordination." Depending on the innovation outcome, workers' wage bill is maximized under "centralization" if …This paper examines how unionization structures that differ in the degree of wage centralization affect firms …' incentives to increase labor productivity. We distinguish three modes of unionization with increasing degree of centralization …
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incentives than "coordination." Depending on the innovation outcome, workers' wage bill is maximised under centralisation" if … holds innovative activity down at its lowest level. Labour market policy can spur innovation by either decentralising … unionisation structures or by imposing non-discrimination rules on monopoly unions. …
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Existing literature on the strategic interaction between the central bank (CB) and unions assumes that firms face …. This is done in a three stage game, in the first stage of which unions contractually set nominal wages, in the second stage … employment and output even when inflation is fully anticipated by labour unions and even when unions are indifferent to inflation …
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We develop a model of strategic networks in order to analyze how trade unions will affect the stability and efficiency … is not true. Strong stability even reinforces this conflict. However, once unions settle wages such conflict disappears …
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wage bill maximizing unions and labour decreasing returns. It is shown that the standard result, that equilibrium profits …
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wage bill maximizing unions and labour decreasing returns. It is shown that the standard result, that equilibrium profits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738774
of all the unions and (typically) the efficient firms has an incentive to establish wage bargaining centralization at the … asymmetries in firms’ productivity and in unions’ risk aversion and/or bargaining power may generate various degrees of … centralization in wage bargaining, which are often observable in real life. In the presence of such asymmetries, a winning coalition …
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We develop a model of strategic networks in order to analyze how trade unions will affect the stability and efficiency … is not true. Strong stability even reinforces this conflict. However, once unions settle wages such conflict disappears …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043051
-R&D investments. In endogenous union structures, we investigate the conditions under which firm-level unions may strategically collude …&D investments. We show that, separate firm-level unions are sustained in the equilibrium, where product quality and the level of R …
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-level unions may strategically collude, or not, and the impact of their decisions upon the firmsâ�� incentives to … firms' products, an industry-wide union emerges (separate firm-level unions sustain) in the equilibrium, where product …
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