Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/961 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
Seminar paper No. 620
Publisher: 
Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm
Abstract: 
The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking - for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes increasingly inefficient and detrimental to firms’ profit opportunities, since it prevents firms from offering their employees adequate incentives to perform the appropriate mix of tasks. The paper also shows how centralized bargaining inhibits firms from using wages to induce workers to learn how to use their experience from one set of tasks to enhance their performance at other tasks. In this way, the paper helps explain the increasing resistance to centralized bargaining in various advanced market economies.
Subjects: 
centralized wage bargaining
restructuring
technological change
information flows
employment
wage formation
unemployment
organization of firms
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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