Union-firm bargaining over long term benefits
Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms
ISBN: 978-0-76231-000-5, eISBN: 978-1-84950-198-9
Publication date: 1 February 2003
Abstract
The paper studies bargaining over workers' benefits which are due some time in the future. A union bargains on behalf of a workforce which may be diverse in the sense that workers' probabilities of staying with the firm vary. Bargaining structure, rather than the bargaining power of the union, is found to be the driving force in the model for determining the level of benefits. A further key issue is that of whose preferences are represented in the union's objective function, and thereby in the bargaining process.
Citation
Erik Askildsen, J. and Ireland, N.J. (2003), "Union-firm bargaining over long term benefits", Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms (Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory & Labor-Managed Firms, Vol. 7), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 229-248. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0885-3339(03)07011-X
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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