In an era of fiscal austerity and dualization of social protection, has organized labor become increasingly split along skill and industry lines? Against recent political science accounts of trade union involvement in social policy-making, this paper argues that, in the specific area of...

The labor movement is stirring. Whether it will succed in reinvigorating America's workers and in expanding its now precarious position in the private sector is surely in doubt. At best, its task is formidable. Many observers attribute the labor movement's fall during the past quarter century in...

It is commonly assumed that the ACTU is the most important peak union council in Australia, since it is a national body, which has had no serious rivals for fourteen years.

In this paper we develop a game-theoretic version of the "right-to-manage" model of firm-level bargaining where strategic interactions among firms are explicitly recognized. Our main aim is to investigate how equilibrium wages and employment react to changes in various labor and product market...

In this paper we develop a theory of union bargaining power based on firm specific skills acquired by the insider workforce.