This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

fifth of employees are still members of a trade union. Union density has declined substantially over the last decades … bargaining coverage and union density have prompted a controversial discussion of how to stabilise the German system of …

are embedded, may tip the balance in favor of a beneficial union effect. In the present paper, we assemble nationally …