We consider a small, unionized economy which interacts with an economically larger one, and we study the growth implications of different institutional structures for the labour markets. We study three possible scenarios. Under decentralized bargaining in the large economy, the two countries...

The usual analysis of privatization and X-inefficiency uses agency theory to model managerial effort. We model worker effort as determined by a bargain between firms and workers. Workers dislike effort because it lowers utility. Firms prefer high effort because it raises productivity....

Les etudes econometriques recentes sur les decisions de syndicalisation ont commence a utiliser des micro-donnees sur les travailleurs et/ou sur les entreprises. Ces etudes ne se limitent pas aux seuls determinants du statut syndical des individus. Elles sont motivees, dans la plupart des cas,...

A l'heure ou l'utilite des syndicats est remise en cause a la lumiere des principes des economistes classiques, il nous est apparu opportun de revenir sur l'analyse developpee par les plus imminents membres de l'ecole classique anglaise: Smith, Ricrado et Stuart Mill. Ont-ils developpe une...

Dans le cadre d'une approche purement descriptive et en complement de la litterature theorique et empirique traitant des determinants economiques de la croissance syndicale, nous consacrons la premiere partie de ce travail a la recherche des tendances profondes qui ont caraterise l'evolution du...

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...

This article seeks to provide HRM professionals information and guidance that will assist them in understanding, evaluating, and applying current thinking regarding the new employment relationship. The focus of the article is a study that investigates the extent to which there is a consensus in...