Labour Relations and Economic Performance

Proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association in Venice, Italy

  • Editors
  • Renato Brunetta
  • Carlo Dell’Aringa
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Part of the International Economic Association Series book series (IEA)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xlii
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  2. Corporatism and Economic Performance

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Sectors in Modern Capitalism: Modes of Governance and Variations in Performance
      Philippe C. Schmitter
      Pages 3-39
    3. Changing Unemployment Rates in Europe and the USA: Institutional Structure and Regional Variation
      Michael Kendix, Mancur Olson
      Pages 40-67
    4. Trade Unions in the Exposed Sector: Their Influence on Neo-corporatist Behaviour
      Colin Crouch
      Pages 68-91
    5. Two Kinds of Rigidity: Corporate Communities and Collectivism
      Ronald Dore
      Pages 92-113
    6. Between Liberalism and Corporatism: The Effect of Trade Unions and Governments on Economic Performance in Eighteen OECD Countries
      Heikki Paloheimo
      Pages 114-136
    7. Social Conflict and Populist Policies in Latin America
      Jeffrey Sachs
      Pages 137-169
    8. Reinterpreting Corporatism and Explaining Unemployment: Co-ordinated and Non-co-ordinated Market Economies
      David Soskice
      Pages 170-211

  3. Unions and Incomes Policies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 213-213
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    2. Incomes Policies in a North American Setting
      John McCallum
      Pages 215-228
    3. Industrial Employment in Italy: The Consequences of Shifts in Union Power in the 1970s and 1980s
      Lucrezia Reichlin, Michele Salvati
      Pages 229-254
    4. Incomes Policies as Co-operative Strategies: Lessons from the Italian Experience of the 1980s
      Renato Brunetta, Carlo Carraro
      Pages 255-282
    5. Trade Unions and Economic Performance: The British Evidence
      David Metcalf
      Pages 283-303
    6. On the Divergence of Unionism among Developed Countries
      Richard Freeman
      Pages 304-322

  4. Labour Flexibility and Unemployment

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 323-323
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    2. Labour Market Flexibility and Decentralisation as Barriers to High Employment? Notes on Employer Collusion, Centralised Wage Bargaining and Aggregate Employment
      Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyer
      Pages 325-352
    3. The Passing of the Golden Age
      Andrew Newell, James Symons
      Pages 353-377
    4. Interindustry Wage Structure and the Power of Incumbent Workers
      Assar Lindbeck, Dennis Snower
      Pages 378-390
    5. Wage Determination and Union Behaviour in Italy: An Efficiency Wage Interpretation
      Carlo Dell’Aringa, Claudio Lucifora
      Pages 391-413

About this book

Introduction

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held to assess the current state of the analysis of the labour market and of industrial relations and their relationship to economic performance.

Keywords

employment labor market mobility unemployment unions

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11562-4
  • Copyright Information International Economic Association 1990
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-11564-8
  • Online ISBN 978-1-349-11562-4
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