[PDF] Trade Unions And Wages eBook

Author : Albert Rees
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Study of aspects of trade unions in the USA, with particular reference to their role as economic institutions and some reference to political aspects thereof - covers historical aspects of unionism, sources of union power (strikes, slowdowns, boycotts, etc.), union wage policy, the influence of unions on income distribution and the cost of living, union membership, union employment policy, grievance procedures, etc. Selected statistical tables on membership and strike.

Author : Alison L. Booth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521468398

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This book analyses the crucial features of unionised labour markets. The models in the book refer to labour contracts between unions and management, but the method of analysis is also applicable to non-union labour markets where workers have some market power. In this book, Alison Booth, a researcher in the field, emphasises the connection between theoretical and empirical approaches to studying unionised labour markets. She also highlights the importance of taking into account institutional differences between countries and sectors when constructing models of the unionised labour market. While the focus of the book is on the US and British unionised labour markets, the models and analytical methods are applicable to other industrialised countries with appropriate modifications.

Author : Daniel J. B. Mitchell
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
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USA. Monograph on the relationship between trade union wage determination and inflation - seeks to define the extent to which the collective bargaining mechanism itself is an engine of inflation, presents institutional and economic background, and discusses effects of wage settlements on general economic conditions and the phenomenon of wages imitation. References and statistical tables.

Author : J.J. Rosa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9401713715

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The crisis in trade unionism is now a prevailing concern in the United States, as well as in Europe. Its main symptom is, of course, the decrease in union membership. Still, other, less observable elements account for the concern, namely the obsolescence of discourse, the decrease of militant motivation, and the question of efficiency of strikes or collective bargaining. One must keep in mind, however, that trade unions will evolve differently from one country to another. What we know about trade unions has changed over the years. We can now more accurately assess the effects of union action, especially with regard to labor market, wages, and productivity. This book adds to the assessment by integrating the new theories of organizations, contracts, and property rights. In doing so, we shift from a study of markets to one of hierarchies. Thus, the current literature comes back to its sources (but with improved analytical instruments) by returning to the Ross-Dunlop debate on the nature of the trade union. This more complex outlook of trade unions as an organization-not only as an abstract or bodyless supplier of monopolistic labor-allows one to understand better the apparent differences between unions (mainly American) whose action is oriented towards work relation ships and labor contract management and unions (European or "Latin") who are closer to a pressure group wielding power on the political front.

Author : Robert J. Flanagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
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Consists of two papers and comments thereon. The paper "Can Political Models Predict Union Behaviour?" by Professor Robert Flanagan deals with the process of policy formulation within unions. Using collective-choice analysis, examines whether and under what circumstances it is possible for union members to form a collective goal and the ability of union leaders to alter that goal. The paper " Bargaining Structure and Economic Performance" by Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein discusses the issues of the implications of the level of centralization of wage bargaining on economic performance.

Author : Hristos Doucouliagos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317498283

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Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff’s now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do? stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economic impact of trade unions. Trade unions continue to be a significant feature of many labor markets, particularly in developing countries, and issues of labor market regulations and labor institutions remain critically important to researchers and policy makers. The relations between unions and management can range between cooperation and conflict; unions have powerful offsetting wage and non-wage effects that economists and other social scientists have long debated. Do the benefits of unionism exceed the costs to the economy and society writ large, or do the costs exceed the benefits? The Economics of Trade Unions offers the first comprehensive review, analysis and evaluation of the empirical literature on the microeconomic effects of trade unions using the tools of meta-regression analysis to identify and quantify the economic impact of trade unions, as well as to correct research design faults, the effects of selection bias and model misspecification. This volume makes use of a unique dataset of hundreds of empirical studies and their reported estimates of the microeconomic impact of trade unions. Written by three authors who have been at the forefront of this research field (including the co-author of the original volume, What Do Unions Do?), this book offers an overview of a subject that is of huge importance to scholars of labor economics, industrial and employee relations, and human resource management, as well as those with an interest in meta-analysis.