scholarly journals Wage bargaining as an optimal control problem: a dynamic version of the efficient bargaining model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Guerrazzi
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Wage Bargaining ◽  
Bargaining Model ◽  
Speed Of Convergence ◽  
Wage Setting ◽  
Dynamic Version ◽  
Efficient Bargaining ◽  
Over Time

AbstractIn this paper, I develop a dynamic version of the efficient bargaining model grounded on optimal control in which a firm and a union bargain over the wage in a continuous-time environment under the supervision of an infinitely lived mediator. Overturning the findings achieved by means of a companion right-to-manage framework, I demonstrate that when employment is assumed to adjust itself with some attrition in the direction of the contract curve implied by the preferences of the two bargainers, increases in the bargaining power of the firm (union) accelerate (delay) the speed of convergence towards the stationary solution. In addition, confirming the reversal of the results obtained when employment moves over time towards the firm’s labour demand, I show that the dynamic negotiation of wages tends to penalize unionized workers and favour the firm with respect to the bargaining outcomes retrieved with a similar static wage-setting model.

Understanding Rising Income Inequality and Stagnating Ordinary Living Standards in Germany

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Bosch ◽  
Thorsten Kalina
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Wage Bargaining ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

This chapter describes how inequality and real incomes have evolved in Germany through the period from the 1980s, through reunification, up to the economic Crisis and its aftermath. It brings out how reunification was associated with a prolonged stagnation in real wages. It emphasizes how the distinctive German structures for wage bargaining were eroded over time, and the labour market and tax/transfer reforms of the late 1990s-early/mid-2000s led to increasing dualization in the labour market. The consequence was a marked increase in household income inequality, which went together with wage stagnation for much of the 1990s and subsequently. Coordination between government, employers, and unions still sufficed to avoid the impact the economic Crisis had on unemployment elsewhere, but the German social model has been altered fundamentally over the period

Data-based approximate policy iteration for affine nonlinear continuous-time optimal control design

Automatica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 3281-3290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biao Luo ◽  
Huai-Ning Wu ◽  
Tingwen Huang ◽  
Derong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Control Design ◽  
Policy Iteration ◽  
Time Optimal Control ◽  
Time Optimal ◽  
Approximate Policy Iteration

Open-loop optimal control of a class of continuous-time stochastic systems—A simulation study†

1974 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1165-1175 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDGAR C. TACKER ◽  
THOMAS D. LINTON ◽  
CHARLES W. SANDERS
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Simulation Study ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Stochastic Systems ◽  
Open Loop

scholarly journals On turnpike and dissipativity properties of continuous-time optimal control problems

Automatica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 297-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timm Faulwasser ◽  
Milan Korda ◽  
Colin N. Jones ◽  
Dominique Bonvin
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Optimal Control Problems ◽  
Time Optimal Control ◽  
Control Problems ◽  
Time Optimal
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