Recent Advances in Labour Economics

Gillian Hutchinson, John Treble

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Micro-Economic Studies of Trade Union Behaviour; 1. Unions and the Distribution of Income and Employment – A Discrete Model Alistair Ulph and David Ulph 2. A Negative Income Tax in a Partly Unionised Economy Anthony A. Sampson 3. Union Utility Maximisation and Optimal Contracts Jane Black and George Buckley; Part Two: Macro-Economic Studies of Trade Union Behaviour; 4. Money Wage Rigidity in an Economy with Rational Trade Unions Richard Jackman 5. Union Wage Bargaining in a Fixed Price Model Christopher J. Ellis and John Fender 6. Can Stabilisation Policy Increase the Equilibrium Unemployment Rate? E. J. Driffill; Part Three: Empirical Issues in Labour Market Analysis; 7. Empirical Approaches to Life Cycle Labour Supply Richard Blundell and Ian Walker 8. Long Run Equilibrium and the UK Labour Market G. H. Makepeace 9. Flows to and From Unemployment: Is the Register Bimodal? Peter R. Hughes 10. The Impact of Demographic Change on Unemployment Rates in Canada: 1953-78 David Forrest 11. Employment Functions for Great Britain: A New Approach M. Chatterji and S. Price; List of Common References