@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5518, author={Dobbelaere, Sabien and Luttens, Roland Iwan}, title={Collective Bargaining under Non-Binding Contracts}, year={2011}, month={Feb}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={5518}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5518}, abstract={We introduce collective bargaining in a static framework where the firm and its risk-neutral employees negotiate over wages in a non-binding contract setting. Our main result is the equivalence between the non-binding collective equilibrium wage-employment contract and the equilibrium contract under binding risk-neutral efficient bargaining. We also demonstrate that our non-cooperative equilibrium wages and profits coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure that follows from unionization.}, keywords={collective bargaining;union;firm;bargaining power;non-binding contract}, }