Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets

Buch | Softcover

390 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-6034-9 (ISBN)

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Regulatory reform represents a major shift in the government's role toward price determination in the transportation and telecommunication industries. The resulting policy emphasizes dependence on market forces to set prices and to encourage efficient production techniques. While extensive research investigates the influence of deregulation on prices, profits and productivity, the effect on labor markets has not received the same scrutiny. Firms in these industries are of major importance to business operations in other industries because they provide the critical services of transporting goods and transmitting information. This may partly explain such extensive research on the product market aspects of regulatory reform. Examining labor markets in the transportation and telecommunications industries is also highly warranted, as historically these industries represented some of the most heavily unionized sectors in the economy.
The extent to which regulatory reform has encouraged product market competition may not necessarily result in the same degree of competition across industries. Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets debates the notion that research on regulatory reform and labor markets should develop within the framework of the competitive model. This is achieved by presenting diverging views on wage and employment determination in distinctly different deregulated industries.

1 Introduction and Overview.- 2 Regulation and Deregulation in Surface Freight, Airlines and Telecommunications.- 3 Earnings and Employment in Trucking: Deregulating a Naturally Competitive Industry.- 4 Railroad Deregulation and Union Labor Earnings.- 5 Deregulation and Labor Earnings in the Airline Industry.- 6 Labor Negotiations with Regional Monopolies: The Telecommunication Industry.- 7 Regulated Industries and Measures of Earnings Discrimination.- 8 Concluding Observations.- Author Index.

Reihe/Serie	Recent Economic Thought ; 61
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 390 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	94-010-6034-7 / 9401060347
ISBN-13	978-94-010-6034-9 / 9789401060349
Zustand	Neuware