This paper develops a bargaining model of wage and employment determination for the public sector. The solution to the model generates structural wage and employment equations that are estimated using data from New York State teacher-school district collective bargaining agreements.

This paper documents the existence of striking regional differences in the reported behaviour of employees working within the same firm but in different Italian regions. In particular, the frequency of recorded and punished misconduct episodes is significantly higher among employees working in...

Warum gelingt es in der betrieblichen Praxis vielfach nicht, die Kompetenzen von Mitarbeitern intensiver zu nutzen? Sind Mitarbeiter nicht bereit, ihre Kompetenzen staendig weiterzuentwickeln, oder sind die Unternehmen nicht in der Lage, die Prozesse des Organisationslernens zu gestalten? Zur...

In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...