We analyse the two-dimensional Nash bargaining solution (NBS) by deploying standard labour market negotiations model of McDonald and Solow. show that problem can be decomposed into two one-dimensional problems, such solutions together replicate if NBS is applied. The axiom “independence irrelevant alternatives” shown to crucial for this type decomposability. This result has significant implicat...

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...

Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Game-based bargaining theory is presented to evaluate the potential of and stability of cooperative coalition among producers for enhancing producer returns and managing market price and income risk. Results clarify that collective bargainin...

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An approach to collective bargaining, in which structure and governance are carefully introduced into a contract, can act as a kind of restraint on both parties and minimize the scope of adversarial relationships to those matters for which there appears to be no alternative. By enlarging the role and responsibilities of faculty governance within the collective bargaining agreement, such alterna...

Widespread public sector unionism emerged only in the 1960s, as individual states opened the door to collective bargaining for state and municipal workers. This study exploits differences in timing across states to construct estimates of the causal effects of public sector collective bargaining rights on pay, benefits, and employment for teachers, fire fighters, and police. Perhaps surprisingly...

Originally published by the National Center for Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and Professions, Proceedings, Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference, April, 1997, Silver Anniversary Conference: 25 Years Bargaining, Beth H. Johnson, Editor