This study surveys the development and current status of models of union wage
determination since Dunlop and Ross first wrote on the subject in the 1940s. To start, I …

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The paper develops a seniority model of union behaviour that attempts to resolve a number
of long-standing puzzles in the literature. The model predicts that (i) efficient contracts will lie …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of firm-specific employment and wage outcomes
for mechanics in the domestic airline industry. A dynamic contracting model is presented that …

It would be difficult, even today, to argue that labour unions are not important economic
institutions, and it is this importance that makes their consequences for efficiency so …

In the three decades since statistical procedures were first developed to test non-nested (or
separate) families of hypotheses, a burgeoning literature has developed for testing a null …

This article explores the McDonald and Solow (1981) conjecture that the outcome from a
bargain over wages and employment can be approximately achieved by a bargain over …

Input and output data are used in conjunction with negotiated wages and employment to
estimate a fully specified bargaining model between a labour union (the International …

Most people believe that there are such things as good jobs—jobs that a worker would
consider herself lucky to get. But for economists, the existence of good jobs is debatable. In …