Union bargaining power, subcontracting and innovation

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Union Bargaining Power, Labour Standards and Foreign Direct Investment

This paper examines Foreign Direct Investment in the presence of labour unions. An oligopoly model is developed in which identical firms locate in a host country in order to export to a foreign country. These firms are unionised and compete with foreign firms on the foreign market. We consider the incentives for social dumping via restrictive labour legislation which we assume can be used by th...

Efficiency Wages and Union-Firm Bargaining

In this paper we combine the efficiency wage and union-firm bargaining approaches to wage determination to produce a unified model that encapsulates both. We find that combining efficiency wages and union-firm bargaining leads to higher wages, confirming an original insight of Summers. We also find that increases in bargaining power and monopoly power on the goods market have a stronger impact ...

Power, Bargaining, and Collaboration

Over the past century, collaborative work has become increasingly common in academia [61]. In the sciences, it has continued to spread as a practice across disciplines and countries [50, 51]. In fact, in most scientific fields, the majority of published work is now co-authored [40]. The social sciences, likewise, have seen an increase in collaborative work, particularly in fields like economics...

Bargaining and Destructive Power

The theory of bargaining as formulated by Nash (1950, 1953) has developed along two routes. One is axiomatic (e.g., Nash 1950; Kalai and Smorodinsky 1975; Roemer 1988). Here, the negotiation process underlying the bargaining is only implicit. The idea is to try to characterize the negotiated outcome (the solution) through a set of axioms without formally modeling the process. The advantages of ...