Worker Substitutability and Patterns of Unionisation

摘要: A strategic three party bargaining model is developed in which one distinguished party, the firm, has to reac h agreements with other two, each of a group workers. In prebargaining stage, two worker groups decide whether organize jointly or separately. The main observation relates equi librium pattern unionization substitutability production between groups: outcome joint separate unions acco rding are substitute complementary facto rs production. analysis also considers possibilities for firm' s intervention process. Copyright 1988 by Royal Economic Society.