The economics of the trade union /

Over the past two decades, there has been an extraordinary expansion of the economic theory of the trade union. There has also emerged a huge literature that describes and quantifies the impact of the trade union on a host of labour market outcomes. The purpose of this book is to impose some structu...

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Autor principal: Booth, Alison L.
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The development of the union movements of Britain and the United States
  • 3. The orthodox theoretical framework: an overview
  • 4. Trade union objectives and the monopoly union model
  • 5. Bargaining models of the trade union
  • 6. Empirical estimates of the union wage differential
  • 7. The impact of trade unions on productivity, investment, profitability, employment and hours
  • 8. Unions and the macroeconomy
  • 9. Conclusion.