This paper investigates the patterns of bargaining in multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the presence of labor unions … coordination activities. It derives the bargaining regimes which arise as sub-game perfect equilibria, and considers both … unions’ per member transaction costs may attenuate the conflict of interests between bargaining parties as regards the …

This paper investigates the coordination of bargaining activities among labor unions in a Multinational Enterprise (MNE … coordinate negotiations, it derives the bargaining regimes arising as sub-game perfect equilibria. In presence of workers perfect …

This paper analyzes the implications of bilateral bargaining over wages and employment between a producer and a union …. Wages and aggregate employment levels are set according to an efficient (Nash) bargaining agreement while the commodity … the total production surplus, efficient bargaining implies no efficiency loss in production. Depending on the level of …

models reveals that firms and the union have a different preference ordering over labor market bargaining. These differences … help explain why the empirical evidence does not support any one model of union bargaining. We also examine the welfare and …

crucial role. Decreasing productivity gains and increasing the firm's bargaining power lowers management opposition. The …

crucial role. Decreasing productivity gains and increasing the firm's bargaining power lowers management opposition. The … equilibrium wage is above the workers' reservation wage. -- wage bargaining ; management opposition ; productivity gains …