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Gradual collective wage bargaining

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  • Dobbelaere, Sabien
  • Luttens, Roland Iwan

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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.

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  • Dobbelaere, Sabien & Luttens, Roland Iwan, 2016. "Gradual collective wage bargaining," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 37-42.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:labeco:v:40:y:2016:i:c:p:37-42
    DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2016.03.001
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    Keywords

    Collective bargaining; Gradual union; Firm; Search frictions; Employment-at-will.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects

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