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Wage Bargaining, Holdout, and Inflation

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Holden, Steinar

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In many countries, it is customary that production continues under the terms of the old contract during wage negotiations (holdout), unless a work stoppage is initiated. This paper analyzes a model where the workers deliberately work less efficiently during a holdout, while the firm reduces bonus payments. If a holdout is more costly to the firm than to the workers, the wage bargaining will result in a nominal wage increase. The model implies a Phillips curve that consists of two vertical parts; one with high inflation and low unemployment and one with low inflation and high unemployment. Copyright 1997 by Royal Economic Society.

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Volume (Year): 49 (1997)
Issue (Month): 2 (April)
Pages: 235-55
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  2. Harold Houba & Gijsbert van Lomwel, 1998. "Counter Intuitive Results in a Simple Model of Wage Negotiations," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 98-115/3, Tinbergen Institute. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Holden, Steinar & Wulfsberg, Fredrik, 2005. "Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the OECD," Memorandum 10/2005, Oslo University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Holden,S., 2001. "Monetary policy and nominal rigidities under low inflation," Memorandum 16/2001, Oslo University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Pierpaolo Benigno & Luca Antonio Ricci, 2009. "The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off at Low Inflation," IMF Working Papers 09/34, International Monetary Fund. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Steinar Holden & Fredrik Wulfsberg, 2009. "Wage Rigidity, Institutions, and Inflation," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Steinar Holden, 2004. "Wage formation under low inflation," Working Paper 2004/14, Norges Bank. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Steinar Holden & Fredrik Wulfsberg, 2004. "Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe," Working Paper 2004/5, Norges Bank. [Downloadable!]
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  9. Leif Danziger, 2006. "Extension of Labor Contracts and Optimal Backpay," IZA Discussion Papers 2366, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  10. Holden, Helge & Holden, Lars & Holden, Steinar, 2004. "Contract Renewal," Memorandum 20/2004, Oslo University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  11. Holden, Steinar & Wulfsberg, Fredrik, 2007. "Are real wages rigid downwards?," Memorandum 07/2007, Oslo University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  12. Robert E. Hall & Paul R. Milgrom, 2007. "The Limited Influence of Unemployment on the Wage Bargain," Levine's Bibliography 321307000000000135, UCLA Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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