Abstract:This article examines how the union and management determine the duration of the collective agreement in a decentralized bargaining system characterized by the absence of a rule establishing a maximum duration. Based on information on a population of over 5000 collective agreements and bargaining pairs from the Canadian province of Québec, our analysis reveals that establishment-level collective agreement duration is the result of general economic conditions, but also of coercive comparisons, as well as the pa… Show more
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