... Limited 2011 Imports Discrimination Race Pay differentials Trade unions The causal effect of competition on racial wages has been the focus of much research by economists. The basic causal mechanism proposed by Becker (1957) is that profit in non‐competitive markets gives employers...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Economic growth Unemployment Trade unions The success of the Dutch Polder model has to a resurgent interest into the nature of wage pacts. It is uncontested that the Dutch model has lead to high employment, fast economic growth...

... Collective bargaining Ethics Economics Trade unions We follow the Carruth and Oswald paper by specifying two different utility functions, one dealing with a situation when employment is less or equal to union membership and another when employment is higher than membership. where w...

... of unemployment. It is frequently claimed that this is, indeed, the case. Argues that the theoretical and empirical support for this proposition is rather weak. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Economics Exchange rates Labour market Microeconomics Open systems Trade unions Unemployment Internal...

... techniques, although the sample sizes examined here are fairly typical of most macroeconomic time series. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Cointegration Economics Macroeconomics Modelling Trade unions Unemployment Pay Is There a Cointegrating for UK Wages? Vector A Cointegrating Vector for UK Wages...

...John Creedy In the last decade there has been considerable interest in the analysis of Trade Union behaviour, but surprisingly little discussion of the effect of tax changes on wage demands. Previous analyses have been limited by the use of simple tax structures. The discussion is extended...