Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70109 
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Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 49
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
Empirical studies have emphasized three important factors in firm-labor relationships: (a) organization costs of workers, (b) management opposition against workers' organizing drives, (c) the possibility of productivity enhancing effects due to voice/response reasons. In this paper the interplay of all three issues is simultaneously analyzed. The possibility of forgone productivity gains puts an upper bound on management opposition against organizing drives of the workers, even if management opposition is cost-less. Strategic gift exchange - less opposition for higher productivity - plays a crucial role. Decreasing productivity gains and increasing the firm's bargaining power lowers management opposition. The equilibrium wage is above the workers' reservation wage.
Subjects: 
wage bargaining
management opposition
productivity gains
organization costs
JEL: 
C78
J50
J51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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