کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
972471 932604 2007 21 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The economics of union organization: Efficiency, information and profitability
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The economics of union organization: Efficiency, information and profitability
چکیده انگلیسی

This article presents a game-theoretical model of union organization that highlights the role played by efficiency and asymmetric information as determinants of unionization and questions commonly-held assumptions about the effect of firm profitability on unionization decisions. In the model, employers set wages taking into account the effect of their choices on workers' incentives to unionize. As a result of employers' strategic wage setting, collective bargaining emerges in equilibrium only if it increases surplus or if there is asymmetric information about the consequences of unionization. While unionization is usually assumed to be more likely in more profitable firms, the model shows that the probability of unionization will be higher in firms with lower rents. It also shows that the union wage premium and unionization will tend to be negatively correlated.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Labour Economics - Volume 14, Issue 5, October 2007, Pages 848–868
نویسندگان
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