Trade union behaviour, pay bargaining, and economic performance / R.J. Flanagan ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flanagan, Robert J.

Series:

FIEF studies in labour markets and economic policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Congresses.

Labor unions.

Collective bargaining--Congresses.

Collective bargaining.

Wages--Congresses.

Wages.

Wages and labor productivity--Congresses.

Wages and labor productivity.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Summary:

The fourth volume in the FIEF Studies in Labour Markets and Economic Policy explores how trade unions formulate their policy and the effect of bargaining structures on economic performance. The first of the two papers presented in this volume uses collective choice analysis to examine the process of policy formation within unions. It argues that the political processes of unions are arranged to produce uniform preferences, thereby reducing the number of issues that are submitted to votes by union members. The second paper considers the centralization of bargaining procedures and the consequences of centralized bargaining on economic performance. A new model is presented that investigates the impact of different levels of union centralization on the trade off between wages and employment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198287984

OCLC:

27150501