Economics of Labor Unions

Edited by Alison L. Booth, Professor of Economics, University of Essex, UK and Fellow, CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research), UK

'The two volumes represent an essential collection in all university libraries and are outstanding reference tools of a widely dispersed literature for researchers and students in labour economics and industrial relations (note that many of the included articles are not easily available in the libraries of many South-Eastern Universities and research centres).'

• Contents:Volume IAcknowledgementsIntroduction Alison L. BoothPART IALLOCATIVE AND TECHNICAL INEFFICIENCY 1. Albert Rees (1963), ‘The Effects of Unions of Resource Allocation’2. Greg J. Duncan and Frank P. Stafford (1980), ‘Do Union Members Receive Compensating Wage Differentials?’3. S. Rosen (1969), ‘Trade Union Power, Threat Effects and the Extent of Organization’4. Harry G. Johnson and Peter Mieszkowski (1970), ‘The Effects of Unionization on the Distribution of Income: A General Equilibrium Approach’5. Paul A. Grout (1984), ‘Investment and Wages in the Absence of Binding Contracts: A Nash Bargaining Approach’PART IIUNIONS AS EFFICIENCY ENHANCING 6. Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff (1979), ‘The Two Faces of Unionism’7. Roger L. Faith and Joseph D. Reid, Jr (1987), ‘An Agency Theory of Unionism’PART IIIUNION BARGAINING POWER AND MEMBERSHIP8. Samuel Bowles (1985), ‘The Production Process in a Competitive Economy: Walrasian, Neo-Hobbesian, and Marxian Models’9. Alison L. Booth (1985), ‘The Free Rider Problem and a Social Custom Model of Trade Union Membership’10. Alison L. Booth and Monojit Chatterji (1995), ‘Union Membership and Wage Bargaining when Membership is not Compulsory’11. Henry S. Farber (1983), ‘The Determination of the Union Status of Workers’PART IVUNIONS AND IMPERFECT COMPETITION 12. Steve Dowrick (1989), ‘Union-oligopoly Bargaining’13. Mark B. Stewart (1990), ‘Union Wage Differentials, Product Market Influences and the Division of Rents’14. Stephen Nickell (1999), ‘Product Markets and Labour Markets’PART VMODELLING UNION BEHAVIOUR 15. Andrew J. Oswald (1985), ‘The Economic Theory of Trade Unions: An Introductory Survey’16. Henry S. Farber (1978), ‘Individual Preferences and Union Wage Determination: The Case of the United Mine Workers’17. Douglas H. Blair and David L. Crawford (1984), ‘Labor Union Objectives and Collective Bargaining’18. Ken Binmore, Ariel Rubinstein and Asher Wolinsky (1986), ‘The Nash Bargaining Solution in Economic Modelling’19. Wassily Leontief (1946), ‘The Pure Theory of the Guaranteed Annual Wage Contract’20. Ian M. McDonald and Robert M. Solow (1981), ‘Wage Bargaining and Employment’21. Thomas E. MaCurdy and John H. Pencavel (1986), ‘Testing between Competing Models of Wage and Employment Determination in Unionized Markets’22. Alan Manning (1987), ‘An Integration of Trade Union Models in a Sequential Bargaining Framework’23. George E. Johnson (1990), ‘Work Rules, Featherbedding, and Pareto-optimal Union-Management Bargaining’24. Peter Kuhn and Jacques Robert (1989), ‘Seniority and Distribution in a Two-worker Trade Union’PART VIUNIONS AND STRIKES 25. John Kennan and Robert Wilson (1993), ‘Bargaining with Private Information’26. Joseph S. Tracy (1987), ‘An Empirical Test of an Asymmetric Information Model of Strikes’PART VIICHOICE OF BARGAINING STRUCTURE 27. Henrik Horn and Asher Wolinsky (1988), ‘Worker Substitutability and Patterns of Unionisation’28. Byoung Heon Jun (1989), ‘Non-cooperative Bargaining and Union Formation’Name Index Volume IIAcknowledgementsAn Introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume IPART ITHE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF UNIONS 1. Peter Kuhn (1998), ‘Unions and the Economy: What We Know; What We Should Know’2. Stephen Machin, Mark Stewart and John Van Reenen (1993), ‘The Economic Effects of Multiple Unionism: Evidence from the 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey’3. David Card (2001), ‘The Effect of Unions of Wage Inequality in the US Labor Market’4. Richard B. Freeman (1984), ‘Longitudinal Analyses of the Effects of Trade Unions’5. Chris Robinson (1989), ‘The Joint Determination of Union Status and Union Wage Effects: Some Tests of Alternative Models’6. George Jakubson (1991), ‘Estimation and Testing of the Union Wage Effect Using Panel Data’7. Martyn J. Andrews, Mark B. Stewart, Joanna K. Swaffield and Richard Upward (1998), ‘The Estimation of Union Wage Differentials and the Impact of Methodological Choices’PART IIUNIONS AND HOURS OF WORK 8. William M. Boal and John Pencavel (1994), ‘The Effects of Labor Unions on Employment, Wages, and Days of Operation: Coal Mining in West Virginia’9. Alison Booth and Fabio Schiantarelli (1987), ‘The Employment Effects of a Shorter Working Week’PART IIIPUBLIC SECTOR UNIONISM 10. Richard B. Freeman (1986), ‘Unionism Comes to the Public Sector’11. Carl M. Stevens (1966), ‘Is Compulsory Arbitration Compatible With Bargaining?’12. Caroline Minter Hoxby (1996), ‘How Teachers’ Unions Affect Education Production’PART IVUNIONS AND THE MACRO-ECONOMY 13. Robert J. Flanagan (1999), ‘Macroeconomic Performance and Collective Bargaining: An International Perspective’14. Lars Calmfors and John Driffill (1988), ‘Bargaining Structure, Corporatism and Macroeconomic Performance’15. Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell and Richard Jackman (1991), ‘Wage Bargaining and Unions’16. Huw Dixon and Neil Rankin (1994), ‘Imperfect Competition and Macroeconomics: A Survey’17. Alan Manning (1993), ‘Wage Bargaining and the Phillips Curve: The Identification and Specification of Aggregate Wage Equations’18. David Soskice and Torben Iversen (2000), ‘The Nonneutrality of Monetary Policy with Large Price or Wage Setters’PART VUNIONS AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT 19. Robin Naylor (1999), ‘Union Wage Strategies and International Trade’Name Index