This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

In this paper the effectiveness of mediation strategies is analyzed in two different types of collective labour …: self-reported measures and observation of mediation cases. In the study with self-reported measures the participants were … the strategies they used and the outcomes they achieved in their most recent mediation intervention. In the observational …