This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs … only perform unskilled jobs. Our first result shows that the equilibrium with ex-post bargaining is never efficient. Second … production technologies. Finally, in an extension we derive a tax scheme that restores efficiency and we show how workers …

than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …In his classic article An Essay on Bargaining Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather …

-known bargaining solutions. We apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solutions in the small firm …/methodological viewpoint, we extend a somewhat flexible search-matching economy to alternative bargaining solutions. In particular, we prove … search-matching economies. Second, our results show that even though the traditional results of bargaining theory apply in …

layoff taxes can improve efficiency. We show that inefficient separations can even be fully removed with fixed separation …

We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a … enters bargaining directly. Our results lend support to the tendency towards decentralisation of pay bargaining in the public …