This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of … external adjustment. In the latter context, close attention is paid to changes in collective bargaining along the dimensions of … bargaining coverage, structure, and coordination, drawing on Visser’s (2013) welcome update of national collective bargaining …

This paper analyzes the implications of right-to-manage wage bargaining between a producers’ syndicate and a workers … activity. At given prices and price expectations, nominal wages are set according to a Nash bargaining agreement. Producers …-statics analysis of the temporary equilibrium, in particular of the role of union power on employment, wages, and income distribution …

search-and-matching frictions, collective bargaining and monopolistic competition in the productmarket. Workers are …

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 …

evaluates the framework of wage bargaining. Wages are set at the sectoral level and extended nationally. However, they donot … adjustment through lower profits and employment. Wage developments explain about 45 percent of the manufacturing unit labor cost … moving from sectoral- to firm-level wage setting of at least 3.5 percentage points lower unemployment (or higher employment …

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 … minimum wages have been more frequent than in collective bargaining in the last decades, and the majority of these were … impact on labor productivity and they lead to a fall in the unemployment rate. Collective bargaining reforms do not seem to …

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 … minimum wages have been more frequent than in collective bargaining in the last decades, and the majority of these were … impact on labor productivity and they lead to a fall in the unemployment rate. Collective bargaining reforms do not seem to …