The Choice of the Bargaining Agenda in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
Product and labour markets have strong links. Moreover, labour-management relations and
negotiations are central to the functioning of labour market institutions, mostly in
advanced economies. The monograph carries out an in-depth analysis of a fundamental aspect
of unionised labour markets: the scope of bargaining (i.e. the issues which are the
subject of bargaining between firms and unions), and the choice of the negotiation agenda.
Those elements are crucial in unions-firms negotiations: in fact, both bargaining parties
try to influence the agenda to enhance their respective positions in the determination of
the wage outcomes.
Domenico Buccella, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor at Kozminski
University in Warsaw, Poland. His current research mainly focuses on industrial
organization, collective bargaining, and in particular, the relations between product and
labour markets.
156 pages, Paperback