Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/104381 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Munich Discussion Paper No. 2012-22
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München
Abstract: 
We assess the extent of preferences for employment in a collective wage bargaining situation with heterogeneous workers. We vary the size of the union and introduce a treatment mechanism transforming the voting game into an individual allocation task. Our results show that highly productive workers do not take employment of low productive workers into account when making wage proposals, regardless of whether insiders determine the wage or all workers. The level of pro-social preferences is small in the voting game, while it increases as the game is transformed into an individual allocation task. We interpret this as an accountability effect.
Subjects: 
social preferences
wage bargaining
accountability
collective decision making
JEL: 
C91
C92
D71
J51
J52
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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