Authors: | Gu, Yiquan |
Title: | Wage and employment effects of workplace representation: a "Right To Co-Manage" model |
Language (ISO): | en |
Abstract: | This paper introduces a two-stage union-oligopoly-council model of wage and employment determination wherein at the first stage wage is negotiated through collective bargaining and at the second stage employment in each firm is co-determined by the employer and its works council. We provide a full characterization of the model outcome for all parameter values of bargaining power and co-determination power. In particular, works councils always increase employment while their impact on wage can be non-monotonic. Overall, individual works councils’ pursuit of own workers’ interests may well harm the workers as a union. JEL-Classification: J50; J54; L13 |
Subject Headings: | Firm-council co-determination Union-oligopoly bargaining Workplace representation |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2003/26999 http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-3144 |
Issue Date: | 2010-03-29T08:33:59Z |
Appears in Collections: | Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 823 |
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