How do financial markets affect industrial relations: an institutional complementarity approach

Bruno Amable, Ekkehard Ernst and Stefano Palombarini
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Stefano Palombarini: PJSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This article presents a simple formal model of institutional complementarity (IC) applied to industrial relations, and develops two important aspects of IC. We first develop a formal definition for the static and dynamic aspects of IC and then relate these to the interaction between financial relations and the outcome of a wage bargaining between firms and trade unions. Trade unions and firms have the choice between a cooperative negotiation targeting at the long-term success of the firm and a conflictual relation targeting at maximizing the current share. One important determinant in this game will be the time horizon financial investors have as they influence the realization of future gains of cooperation between workers and firms. When financial investors are patient, a pareto-superior cooperative equilibrium can be attained. On the other hand, whenever one of the two bargaining parties gets too weak, the viability even of the long-term equilibrium is threatened.

Keywords: Industrial relations; financial markets; institutional complementarities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-05
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Published in Socio-Economic Review, 2005, 3 (2), pp.311-330. ⟨10.1093/SER/mwi013⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/SER/mwi013

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