Estimates of Unionism and Collective Bargaining in Canada

Collective rationality in bargaining

Roth (1977) axiomatized the Nash (1950) bargaining solution without Pareto optimality. His result is considered an improvement on Nash’s original one, since it dispenses with notions of collective rationality. Several variants of Roth’s result have been obtained in a line of subsequent works. However, all of them rely on Nash’s (1950) independence axiom. Whether or how collective rationality ca...

Teacher Compensation and Collective Bargaining

While compensation accounts for roughly 90% of K-12 instructional costs, there is little evidence of rational design in these systems. This chapter reviews the nature of teacher compensation systems in developed economies and research on their performance effects. Since these compensation schemes typically arise out of collective negotiations, this chapter also surveys the smaller literature on...

"Productivity Measures in Collective Bargaining"

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Collective Bargaining in Higher Education

Collective Bargaining in Higher Education

An approach to collective bargaining, in which structure and governance are carefully introduced into a contract, can act as a kind of restraint on both parties and minimize the scope of adversarial relationships to those matters for which there appears to be no alternative. By enlarging the role and responsibilities of faculty governance within the collective bargaining agreement, such alterna...