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Wages and Employment in a Repeated Game with Revenue Fluctuations

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  • Christian Schultz

    (Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen)

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This paper analyses wages and employment in a repeated game between a union and a firm. The parties cannot enter a binding contract, and revenue is fluctuating. It is shown that if discount factors are moderate, then the best sequence of wage rates and employments sustainable in a subgame perfect equilibrium and sharing the surplus in fixed proportions, has a more counter cyclical wage rate than the one sharing the surplus in the same proportions in each period. This result holds true whether the revenue shocks are i.i.d. or follows a Markov process with persistence.

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  • Christian Schultz, 1995. "Wages and Employment in a Repeated Game with Revenue Fluctuations," Discussion Papers 95-01, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:kud:kuiedp:9501
    DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(96)00015-3
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    2. Adriana Cassoni, 1997. "A brief survey on the role of trade unions in labour market," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 0697, Department of Economics - dECON.

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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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