Published in:Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 16-004/V
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1 Online-Ressource (16 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2720252
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 22, 2016 erstellt
Description:
This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We investigate the impact of such a 'gradual' union on the wage-employment contract in an economy with concave production. In a static framework, the resulting equilibrium is equivalent to the efficient bargaining outcome. In a dynamic framework with search frictions, we demonstrate that gradual collective wage bargaining coincides with all-or-nothing bargaining when bargaining takes place in fictitious time before production