Contents
List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes;
Foreword; Mamphela Ramphele;
Foreword; Robert Holzmann;
Preface and Acknowledgments ;
About the Authors;
List of Acronyms ;
1. Introduction and Summary;
1 The Findings of the Book ;
2. Economic Effects of Labor Standards ;
Labor Standards and Economic Performance
Labor Standards and International Trade ;
3. Collective Bargaining and Economic Performance-A Short Review of the Theory ;
What Unions Do
What Employers' Organizations Do
Organization of Collective Bargaining
Dispute Resolution
Unions: Net Costs or Net Benefits?;
4. Empirical Evidence from Microeconomic Studies ;
The Wage Markup in Different Countries
Variations in the Wage Markup
Other Union Effects ;
Conclusion ;
5. Empirical Evidence from Macroeconomic Studies;
Conceptual Issues
Measuring Labor Market Institutions and Economic Performance
Estimation Methodology
Union Density and Bargaining Coverage
Bargaining Coordination and Comparative Economic Performance: The Big Picture
Dissecting Bargaining Coordination
Bargaining Coordination and the Flexibility of the Labor Market
The Interaction between Bargaining Coordination, Union Density, and Coverage
Strikes, Social Partnership, and International Trade;
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Definition and Description of the Indicators of Bargaining Coordination ;
Appendix 2: Substudies ;
Overview ;
Selected Glossary ;
References ;
Index ;