Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining
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Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining
Abstract
This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We investigate the impact of such a 'gradual' union on the wage-employment contract in an economy with concave production. In a static framework, the resulting equilibrium is equivalent to the efficient bargaining outcome. In a dynamic framework with search frictions, we demonstrate that gradual collective wage bargaining coincides with all-or-nothing bargaining when bargaining takes place in fictitious time before production.
Keywords: collective bargaining, gradual union, firm, search frictions, employment-at-will
JEL Classification: J30, J41, J51
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