Author : Toke Aidt
Publisher : Directions in Development
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This book offers an extensive survey and synthesis of the economic literature on trade unions and collective bargaining and their impact on micro-and macro-economic outcomes. The authors demonstrate the effects of collective bargaining in different country settings and time periods. A comprehensive reference, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of labor policy as well as to policy makers and anyone with an interest in the economic consequences of unionism.
Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Hristos Doucouliagos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317498283
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.
Author : G. William Domhoff
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN :
Author : United States. Office of Labor-Management Standards
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN :
Author : John P. Windmuller
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1991
Category : International labor activities
ISBN :
Author : David Weil
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 067472612X
In the twentieth century, large companies employing many workers formed the bedrock of the U.S. economy. Today, on the list of big business's priorities, sustaining the employer-worker relationship ranks far below building a devoted customer base and delivering value to investors. As David Weil's groundbreaking analysis shows, large corporations have shed their role as direct employers of the people responsible for their products, in favor of outsourcing work to small companies that compete fiercely with one another. The result has been declining wages, eroding benefits, inadequate health and safety protections, and ever-widening income inequality. From the perspectives of CEOs and investors, fissuring--splitting off functions that were once managed internally--has been phenomenally successful. Despite giving up direct control to subcontractors and franchises, these large companies have figured out how to maintain the quality of brand-name products and services, without the cost of maintaining an expensive workforce. But from the perspective of workers, this strategy has meant stagnation in wages and benefits and a lower standard of living. Weil proposes ways to modernize regulatory policies so that employers can meet their obligations to workers while allowing companies to keep the beneficial aspects of this business strategy.
Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198289739
This book fills an important gap in our knowledge of the organization of EU manufacturing industry. At the empirical level, it draws on a newly constructed micro-level database (the European market share matrix) to present the first ever comprehensive picture of the concentration, integration, multinationality, and diversification of EU industry and firms. However, its purpose is not primarily descriptive. At the theoretical level, it develops a new way of integrating the insights of international trade, industrial organization, international business, and corporate strategy. A central thesis is that by understanding the reasons for the industrial structure we observe, much can be understood about the underlying competitive process that generated this structure in the context of current European integration. In this, RandD, advertising, and government intervention each play important and pervasive roles. The insights from an econometric analysis of the various dimensions of industrial structure are applied to address policy-relevant questions such as: is the industrial organization of the member states integrated at the EU level? Are diversification and multinationality random, or do they follow an industrial logic? Which industries and firms pose the most serious potential problems for competition policy? How do the largest EU firms achieve their size? Do certain member states dominate the ownership or location of production?
