Endogenous wage bargaining institutions in oligopolistic sectors

Emmanuel Petrakis and Minas Vlassis ()

Economic Theory, 2004, vol. 24, issue 1, 55-73

Abstract: This paper explores the endogenous emergence of wage bargaining institutions in a union-oligopoly framework. Technological asymmetries among firms are shown to be the driving force for the emergence of alternative wage bargaining centralization structures that are observable in real life. As wage deals at the sector-level obtain the consensus of all unions and the efficient firms, a regulator has an incentive to authorize those deals by activating/establishing a Minimum Sectoral Wage Institution(MSWI). If productivity differences are high enough, wage setting above the established wage floor may subsequently occur in efficient firms. Otherwise, a completely centralized wage bargaining structure emerges and the sector-level wage deal is simply confirmed as the firms’ wage rate. If, however, productivity asymmetries are rather insignificant, firms and unions have conflicting interests and a completely decentralized wage bargaining regime prevails in equilibrium. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2004

Keywords: Wage negotiations; Bargaining institutions; Unions; Oligopoly; Minimum wage. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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