Labor disputes are an intriguing feature of the landscape of industrialized economies. Economists have had a long-standing interest in formulating a framework for understanding and analyzing labor disputes. The development of noncooperative bargaining theory provided the tools for a theory

This paper investigates the coordination of bargaining activities among labor unions in a Multinational Enterprise (MNE) with plants in different countries. Making use of a threestage game where the parties sequentially decide whether to coordinate negotiations, it derives the bargaining regimes

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This paper extends Hall’s (1988) methodology to analyse imperfections in both the product and the labour market for firms in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1988-1995. We investigate the heterogeneity in price-cost mark-up and union bargaining power parameters among 18 sectors

A comparison of the results of the six most recent Intergovernmental Conferences (IGCs) in the European Union (EU) indicates that member governments ' success in achieving substantial compromises based on issue linkages differs across cases. An examination of supranational

IVIE working papers offer in advance the results of economic research under way in order to encourage a discussion process before sending them to scientific journals for their final publication. * The authors acknowledge the valuable suggestions and comments made by L. Altenburg and an anonymous referee on an earlier version of this paper.

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) it is possible to reduce impasses by debiasing bargainers; and (c) the bias results from selective evaluation of information. We also review results from a field study of negotiations between teachers ' unions and school boards in Pennsylvania that both documents the fairness bias in a naturalistic setting

This paper records a study of the impacts of,the Employment Contracts Act 1991 (ECA) on unions and non-union bargaining agents.. The assessment primarily relates,to the first 12 months of the Act's op,eration but, where appropriate, does extrapolate certain trends into the foreseeable future

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