Bargaining Over Labour: Do Patients Have Any Power?

Gans, Joshua S; Leigh, Andrew

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Bargaining Over Labour: Do Patients Have Any Power?

Date

2012

Authors

Gans, Joshua S

Leigh, Andrew

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, we study negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we