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 …

sufficiently large bargaining cost, even unionization might be infeasible. As a result, workers can use the political process as a … substitute for collective bargaining. In fact, if all workers widely understand the bargaining process, they are likely to see … the minimum wage as an issue of fairness (i.e. low wage workers do not have the same bargaining opportunities as those …

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 …

We analyze a bargaining model where there is a long-term relationship between a seller and a buyer and there is … bargaining over a sequence of surpluses that arrives at fixed points in time. Markov Perfect Equilibria are analyzed and …

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 …