Bargaining Structure and Bargaining Outcomes: Determinants and Tradeoffs

摘要

The objective of this study was to investigate the determinants of and tradeoff between collectively bargained wage and nonwage outcomes and the determinants of union and employer demand for particular kinds of collective bargaining structures. Using data from U.S. collective bargaining agreements and environmental data from a variety of sources, the determinants of and tradeoffs between wage and nonwage outcomes with an ordinary least squares (OLS) multiple regression technique in a reduced form model with separate equations for wage and nonwage provisions. The determinants of union and employer demand for single firm and multifirm bargaining structure with bivariate probit and OLS multiple regression techniques in a structural model with separate equations for employer demand and union demand for multifirm and single firm bargaining structures were analyzed.