• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining
  • Contributor: Dobbelaere, Sabien [Author]; Luttens, Roland Iwan [Author]
  • imprint: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2016
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: collective bargaining ; J51 ; search frictions ; employment-at-will ; firm ; J30 ; gradual union ; J41
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  • 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.
  • Access State: Open Access