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Wage Bargaining and Employer Objectives

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Torberg Falch () (Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

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This paper compares union wage bargaining outcomes across different types of employers. Five different employer objectives are discussed; profit–, welfare– and output maximization, and two specifications of a Leviathan. The model shows that the ordering of the union wage level across employer types depends on the functional form of product demand. With constant elasticity of product demand, the wage tends to be lowest in the output maximization case, while with a linear product demand, the wage tends to be lowest under welfare maximization.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in its series Working Paper Series with number 2402.

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Date of creation: 01 Dec 2002
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Keywords: Wage bargaining Employer objectives Wage differentials

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J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure

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