Fissured Employment and Network Bargaining: Emerging Employment Relations Dynamics in a Contingent World of Work

Contingent and Non-Contingent Rewards in the Employment Relationship

Decentralisation of bargaining and manufacturing employment:

Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment fell by more than 20 %. The decentralisation of wage bargaining that started in 1983 may have contributed to this by making employment more shock sensitive or by increasing wage mark-ups. In Swedish plant-level data for manufacturing 1970–96 relatively less employment is in lo...

Into contingent and alternative employment: by choice?

Workers enter contingent and alternative arrangements from many different activities and for a wide variety of reasons; while some workers are involuntarily in such arrangements, as a proportion of the employed, they are relatively few R ecent reports of corporate downsizing, the growth of temporary help agencies, and the phenomenon of " outsourcing " have fueled the perception that the number ...

Employment and Hours of Work

This paper develops a dynamic model of the labor market in which the degree of substitution between employment and hours of work is determined as part of a search equilibrium. Each firm chooses the demand for working hours and the number of vacancies, and the hourly wage rate is determined by Nash bargaining. A firm increases the demand for hours as recruitment becomes more costly. Labor market...

Private Information, Wage Bargaining and Employment Fluctuations

thank Björn Brügemann, Bob Hall, Giuseppe Moscarini, Rob Shimer, and the participants in seminars at Northwestern, Yale and Duke for useful comments. I also thank the editor and two anonymous referees for their constructive criticism. I am particularly grateful to Rob Shimer for pointing out a serious mistake in early versions of the paper. The National Science Foundation provided research supp...