%0 Report
        %A Dobbelaere, Sabien
%A Luttens, Roland Iwan
        %T Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9691
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9691
        %X This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We investigate the impact of such a 'gradual' union on the wage-employment contract in an economy with concave production. In a static framework, the resulting equilibrium is equivalent to the efficient bargaining outcome. In a dynamic framework with search frictions, we demonstrate that gradual collective wage bargaining coincides with all-or-nothing bargaining when bargaining takes place in fictitious time before production.
        %K firm
%K gradual union
%K collective bargaining
%K search frictions
%K employment-at-will