Endogenous scope of bargaining in a union-oligopoly model: When will firms and unions bargain over employment?

Labour Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 261-281

  Petrakis, Emmanuel ^a   Vlassis, Minas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decentralized bargaining; J50; J53; L13; Oligopoly; Scope of bargaining; Stackelberg leader; Unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034178957     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(99)00043-3     Document Type: Article

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