Labour Relations and Economic Performance: Proceedings of a conference held by the International Economic Association in Venice, Italy (International Economic Association Series)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xlii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Sectors in Modern Capitalism: Modes of Governance and Variations in Performance....Pages 3-39 Changing Unemployment Rates in Europe and the USA: Institutional Structure and Regional Variation....Pages 40-67 Trade Unions in the Exposed Sector: Their Influence on Neo-corporatist Behaviour....Pages 68-91 Two Kinds of Rigidity: Corporate Communities and Collectivism....Pages 92-113 Between Liberalism and Corporatism: The Effect of Trade Unions and Governments on Economic Performance in Eighteen OECD Countries....Pages 114-136 Social Conflict and Populist Policies in Latin America....Pages 137-169 Reinterpreting Corporatism and Explaining Unemployment: Co-ordinated and Non-co-ordinated Market Economies....Pages 170-211 Front Matter....Pages 213-213 Incomes Policies in a North American Setting....Pages 215-228 Industrial Employment in Italy: The Consequences of Shifts in Union Power in the 1970s and 1980s....Pages 229-254 Incomes Policies as Co-operative Strategies: Lessons from the Italian Experience of the 1980s....Pages 255-282 Trade Unions and Economic Performance: The British Evidence....Pages 283-303 On the Divergence of Unionism among Developed Countries....Pages 304-322 Front Matter....Pages 323-323 Labour Market Flexibility and Decentralisation as Barriers to High Employment? Notes on Employer Collusion, Centralised Wage Bargaining and Aggregate Employment....Pages 325-352 The Passing of the Golden Age....Pages 353-377 Interindustry Wage Structure and the Power of Incumbent Workers....Pages 378-390 Wage Determination and Union Behaviour in Italy: An Efficiency Wage Interpretation....Pages 391-413 Institutions and Labour Mobility: Occupational and Internal Labour Markets in Britain, France, Italy and West Germany....Pages 414-438 Labour Flexibility and Insecurity: Towards an Alternative Strategy....Pages 439-468 Back Matter....Pages 469-482