Analyzes a sample of wage arbitration cases that are representative of the complete universe of wage arbitration cases in the United States. Decline in the number of wage arbitration cases reported; Structural changes in collective bargaining in the early 1950s; Relationship of wage arbitration...

Discusses the Section 8 (5) of the original National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act in the United States. Purpose of the original Wagner Act; Development of the legal concept of the duty to bargain; Problem of interpreting the intent under Section 8 (5). (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

This paper develops an empirical framework to analyze consumer's dynamicswitching decision in the cellular service industry. It firstincorporates the sequential problem of quantity, plan and firmsubscription choice in the presence of switching costs into a dynamicstructural model, which allows...