This paper outlines the intertwining of inductrial relations and the reorganization of production in the Rover Group (until recently the last British-owned car producer, now owned by BMW). The paper locates events at Rover, and particularly the perceived shift in industrial relations brought...

We develop a model of strategic networks in order to analyze how trade unions will affect the stability and efficiency of R&D collaboration networks in an oligopolistic industry with three firms. Whenever firms settle wages, the complete network is always pairwise stable and the partially...

Cet article presente les resultats d'une analyse comparative de 78 decisions rendues en 1992 et 1996 qui montre l'existence de differences dans le traitement des plaintes en matiere de discrimination en emploi par deux instances. Il souligne les implications de ces resultats pour les arbitres de...

This paper develops a bargaining model of wage and employment determination for the public sector. the solution to the model generates structural wage and employment equations that are estimated using data from New York State teacher-school district collective bargaining agreements.

We consider a two-country model of wage determination with private information in unionized imperfectly competitive industries. We investigate the effects of separated product markets opening up for competition as well as of further market integration on the negociated wage and the maximum delay...