This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of microeconomic and … adjustment. In the latter context, close attention is also paid to changes in collective bargaining along the dimensions of … bargaining coverage, structure, and coordination. Support is adduced for the German, contemporary Scandinavian, and British …

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of microeconomic and … adjustment. In the latter context, close attention is also paid to changes in collective bargaining along the dimensions of … bargaining coverage, structure, and coordination. Support is adduced for the German, contemporary Scandinavian, and British …

The average employment rate for the OECD countries was close to 63 percent in the period 2000- 2015 but there is … considerable variation within and between countries. We find that a dynamic model for employment, derived from a multiple equation … the dynamics well and they imply interpretable estimates of the normal employment rate level, conditional on the state of …

The average employment rate for the OECD countries was close to 63 percent in the period 2000-2015 but there is … considerable variation within and between countries. We find that a dynamic model for employment, derived from a multiple equation … the dynamics well and they imply interpretable estimates of the normal employment rate level, conditional on the state of …

This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …

asymmetry implies that an adverse, skill-neutral shock to aggregate employment may cause an increase in wage inequality, both …

more employment with individual wage bargaining than with collective wage bargaining, using a wage equation generated by … bargaining power of the individual is high compared to the bargaining power of the union, there is more unemployment with … individual wage setting and vice versa. When the individual worker and the union have the same bargaining power, if the cost of …