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Is Pattern Bargaining Dead?

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This paper challenges the common belief that pattern bargaining largely ended in the 1980s. Applying a measure of pattern bargaining—the dispersion of log wages—to wage data drawn from the same data set that Audrey Freedman used in her widely quoted studies of this subject, the author shows that the extent of pattern bargaining was actually greater in 1983 than in 1977. The evidence suggests that managers' perceptions of changes in the bargaining process, which are the basis for Freedman's claim that pattern bargaining has eroded, are inconsistent with actual changes in wage patterns.

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  • Kathryn J. Ready, 1990. "Is Pattern Bargaining Dead?," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 43(2), pages 272-279, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:43:y:1990:i:2:p:272-279
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    1. Robert C. Marshall & Antonio Merlo, 2004. "Pattern Bargaining," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 45(1), pages 239-255, February.
    2. Peter Ingram & Neil Rickman & Jonathan Wadsworth, 2013. "Wage claims in the British private sector: 1979–2003," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(3), pages 296-315, May.

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