Collective Bargaining and Social Pacts: Greece in Comparative Perspective

Bruno Caruso Decentralised Social Pacts , Trade unions and collective bargaining ( how Labour Law is changing

Bargaining and Majority Rules: A Collective Search Perspective∗

We study a collective search process in which tentative proposals arrive sequentially and members of a committee decide whether to accept the current proposal or continue searching. The acceptance decision is made according to a (qualified) majority rule. We study which members have more impact on the decision, as well as the degree of randomness of the decision, as members get patient. When pr...

Macroeconomic Performance and Collective Bargaining: an International Perspective

Macroeconomic Performance and Collective Bargaining: An International Perspective This paper critically reviews the research on how collective bargaining systems influence macroeconomic performance in industrialized countries. The review considers effects of bargaining level, coordination, and corporatist institutional arrangements. Key empirical results turn out to be quite fragile, and much o...

Collective rationality in bargaining

Roth (1977) axiomatized the Nash (1950) bargaining solution without Pareto optimality. His result is considered an improvement on Nash’s original one, since it dispenses with notions of collective rationality. Several variants of Roth’s result have been obtained in a line of subsequent works. However, all of them rely on Nash’s (1950) independence axiom. Whether or how collective rationality ca...

Teacher Compensation and Collective Bargaining

While compensation accounts for roughly 90% of K-12 instructional costs, there is little evidence of rational design in these systems. This chapter reviews the nature of teacher compensation systems in developed economies and research on their performance effects. Since these compensation schemes typically arise out of collective negotiations, this chapter also surveys the smaller literature on...