Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46082 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5181
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this article, we use a stylized model of the labor market to investigate the effects of three alternative and well-known bargaining solutions. We apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solutions in the small firm's matching model of unemployment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt that has been made to implement and systematically compare these solutions in search-matching economies. Our results are twofold. First from the theoretical/methodological viewpoint, we extend a somewhat flexible search-matching economy to alternative bargaining solutions. In particular, we prove that the Egalitarian and the Kalai-Smorodinsky solutions are easily implementable and mathematically tractable within search-matching economies. Second, our results show that even though the traditional results of bargaining theory apply in this context, they are generally qualitatively different and quantitatively weaker than expected. This is of particular relevance in comparison with the results established in the earlier literature.
Subjects: 
search and matching models
bargaining theory
Nash
Egalitarian
Kalai-Smorodinsky
JEL: 
C71
C78
J20
J60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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