The Economics of Trade Unions: New Directions

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Abstract

1 Changes over Time in the Union-Nonunion Wage Differential in the United States -- 2 Strike Cost and Wages Rates: Cross-Industry Differences -- 3 Cyclical Strike Activity and Mature Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Canadian Data: 1960–1976 -- 4 The Relative Wage Effect of French Unions -- 5 Trade Unions and Restrictive Practices -- 6 The Economic Analysis of the Trade Union as a Political Institution -- 7 Toward a Theory of the Union Firm -- 8 The Agency Problem in a Nonproprietary Theory of Union Behavior -- 9 The Empirical Performance of a Model of Trade Union Behavior -- 10 The Determinants of Union Staff Salaries: A New Meaning to Business Unionism -- 11 Unions: Economic Performance and Labor Market Structure -- 12 Union Membership and Union Management: A Research Agenda for the '80s -- Contributing Authors.