Union Wage Bargaining and Economic Growth (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

I Introduction.- I Introduction.- II Bargaining Theory.- 1 Static Bargaining Models.- 1.1 The Nash Bargaining Solution.- 1.1.1 The General Idea.- 1.1.2 An Application to Wage Negotiations.- 1.2 The Rubinstein Solution.- 1.2.1 The General Idea.- 1.2.2 An Application to Wage Negotiations.- 1.3 Rubinstein vs Nash.- 2 Dynamic Wage Bargaining.- 2.1 The General Idea.- 2.2 Appendix.- III Unions and Capital.- 3 Unions and Investment.- 3.1 Unions and Investment-The Two Period Case.- 3.2 Unions and Investment-The Infinite Horizon Case.- 4 Unions in a Solow Type Growth Model.- 4.1 The Model of Kemp and Van Long (1987).- 4.1.1 The General Case.- 4.1.2 The CES Case.- 4.2 The Palokangas Model (1989).- 5 Unions in a Diamond Type Growth Model.- 5.1 The Basic Model.- 5.2 Union Wage Bargaining.- 5.3 Appendix.- 6 Unions in an AK Model.- 6.1 The Basic Model.- 6.2 Union Wage Bargaining.- 7 Summary.- IV Unions and Creative Destruction.- 8 The Growth Model.- 8.1 The Econorny.- 8.2 The Steady State Rate of Growth.- 9 Union Wage Bargaining.- 9.1 The right-to-manage Case.- 9.1.1 The Employment Effects of the Labour Union.- 9.1.2 The Growth Effects of the Labour Union.- 9.2 Efficient Bargaining.- 10 Appendix.- V Unions and Expanding Product Variety.- 11 One Sector Bargaining.- 11.1 The Basic Model.- 11.2 The Unionised Economy.- 11.3 Appendix.- 12 Tax Policy.- 12.1 The Basic Model.- 12.2 Tax Reforms.- 12.2.1 Ex-Ante Revenue Neutrality.- 12.2.2 Ex-Post Revenue Neutrality.- 12.3 Appe ndix.- 13 Simultaneous Wage Bargaining.- 13.1 The Growth Model.- 13.1.1 The Consumption Good Sector.- 13.1.2 The Intermediate Good Sector.- 13.1.3 The Research Sector.- 13.1.4 Households.- 13.1.5 Steady State Equilibrium.- 13.2 The Unionised Economy.- 13.2.1 Wage Bargaining in the Intermediate Sector.- 13.2.2 Wage Bargaining in the R&D Sector.- 13.2 .3 General Equilibrium.- 13.3 Equilibrium Unemployment.- 13.4 Growth Effects of the Wage Bargain.- 13.5 Appendix.- 13.5.1 The Bargained Wage in the Intermediate Goods Sector.- 13.5.2 The Bargained Wage in the Research Sector.- 13.5.3 Coefficients of the Linearised Equilibrium Conditions.- VI Unions, Labour Productivity and Dual Labour Markets.- 14 An OLG Model with Growing Labour Productivity.- 14.1 The Basic Model.- 14.1.1 Production.- 14.1.2 Households.- 14.1.3 Equilibrium.- 14.2 Union Wage Bargaining.- 14.3 Appendix.- 15 An Infinite Horizon Model with Growing Labour Productivity.- 15.1 The Basic Model.- 15.2 Union Wage Bargaining.- 15.3 Appendix.- VII Summary and Conclusion.- VII Summary and Conclusion.- References.