... into consideration the unemployment among unskilled workers induced by the wage bargaining between firms’ and workers’ unions. Bargaining is due to an informative question involved in the economy because of the different endowments of human capital among unskilled workers; this asymmetric information between...

... by comparing the effects of domestic and foreign acquisition activity on union and non‐union wages. We find strong evidence supporting the ability to pay hypothesis. There is no indication of bargaining strength changing with foreign acquisitions, as such activity is not associated with larger union wage...

... in collective bargaining, in particular the move from pit‐level piece‐work bargaining to national‐level day rate bargaining. Given the decline of strike activity in the UK and many other industrialized economies in recent years it may be time to reasses the relationship between “alternative” forms of industrial...

...Fiona Carmichael Considers the role of multinational enterprise in the determination of relative wages. Multinationality of the firm is incorporated in a wage‐bargaining model with asymmetric information. Indicates that the impact of multinational enterprise on wages depends on the profitability...

... a positive effect on a bargaining unit′s duration of normal working during a current contract negotiation. For all three professions, the primary finding of this study is that longer duration strikes in time t produce longer normal working time at time t + 1. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Bargaining...

... are offered on likely future trends. © MCB UP Limited 1990 United Kingdom Industrial relations Trade unions Bargaining 32 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER 11,7 E mployers are going to find it more difficult to impose their will than they did in the 1980s. Bargaining into the 1990s: Where Now...