Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51942 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5518
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract under binding risk-neutral efficient bargaining. We also demonstrate that our non-cooperative equilibrium wages and profits coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure that follows from unionization.
Subjects: 
collective bargaining
union
firm
bargaining power
non-binding contract
JEL: 
C71
J51
L20
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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