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Contents
Introduction
1
The development of the union movements of Britain and the United States
12
The development of the British union movement
14
The development of the US union movement
36
A brief comparison of the British and the US collective bargaining systems
47
The orthodox theoretical framework an overview
51
Trade unions in a perfectly competitive product market
52
Trade unions and improvements in economic efficiency
66
The noncooperative bargaining problem
150
Appendix 5B
154
Empirical estimates of the union wage differential
157
The unionnonunion wage differential definition
158
Aggregate crosssection estimates of the union wage differential
159
Individual crosssection estimates of the union wage differential
163
Simultaneous equation and panel studies estimating the union wage differential using micro data
173
Changes in the union wage differential over time
177
How does a union obtain monopoly power?
71
Conclusion
76
Appendix 3A
77
Trade union objectives and the monopoly union model
82
The union objective function
87
The behaviour of the firm
94
The monopoly union model
97
Empirical evaluation of union objectives
101
The median voter model and models of endogenous membership
108
Conclusion
116
Appendix 4A
118
Bargaining models of the trade union
120
Two approaches to modelling bargaining behaviour
123
The righttomanage model
124
The efficient bargaining model
128
The righttomanage model versus the efficient bargaining model
134
Bargaining and strikes
141
Bargaining over wages and standard hours
146
Conclusion
149
Unions and wage dispersion
179
Conclusion
180
The impact of trade unions on productivity investment profitability employment and hours
183
Modelling union effects on productivity
188
Some problems with this approach
190
Empirical evidence for the USA
194
Evidence on productivity for Britain
200
The impact of unions on investment profitability employment and hours
209
Conclusion
223
Unions and the macroeconomy
224
The monopoly union model and macroeconomics
226
Aggregate unemployment and the wage bargaining structure
243
Unemployment persistence and hysteresis
248
Empirical estimation of the wage and pricesetting curves
253
Conclusion
256
Conclusion
258
References
266
Index
289
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