Negotiating with Labor under Financial Distress

We analyze how firms renegotiate labor contracts to extract concessions from labor. While anecdotal evidence suggests that firms tend to renegotiate wages downward in times of financial distress, there is no empirical evidence that documents such renegotiation, its determinants, and its magnitude. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benmelech, Efraim, Bergman, Nittai, Enriquez, Ricardo J.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87605
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6486-333X