Labour Relations and Economic Performance

Front Matter

Sectors in Modern Capitalism: Modes of Governance and Variations in Performance

• Philippe C. Schmitter

Changing Unemployment Rates in Europe and the USA: Institutional Structure and Regional Variation

• Michael Kendix, Mancur Olson

Trade Unions in the Exposed Sector: Their Influence on Neo-corporatist Behaviour

• Colin Crouch

Two Kinds of Rigidity: Corporate Communities and Collectivism

• Ronald Dore

Between Liberalism and Corporatism: The Effect of Trade Unions and Governments on Economic Performance in Eighteen OECD Countries

• Heikki Paloheimo

Social Conflict and Populist Policies in Latin America

• Jeffrey Sachs

Reinterpreting Corporatism and Explaining Unemployment: Co-ordinated and Non-co-ordinated Market Economies

• David Soskice

Front Matter

Incomes Policies in a North American Setting

• John McCallum

Industrial Employment in Italy: The Consequences of Shifts in Union Power in the 1970s and 1980s

• Lucrezia Reichlin, Michele Salvati

Incomes Policies as Co-operative Strategies: Lessons from the Italian Experience of the 1980s

• Renato Brunetta, Carlo Carraro

Trade Unions and Economic Performance: The British Evidence

• David Metcalf

On the Divergence of Unionism among Developed Countries

• Richard Freeman

Front Matter

Labour Market Flexibility and Decentralisation as Barriers to High Employment? Notes on Employer Collusion, Centralised Wage Bargaining and Aggregate Employment

• Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyer

The Passing of the Golden Age

• Andrew Newell, James Symons

Interindustry Wage Structure and the Power of Incumbent Workers

• Assar Lindbeck, Dennis Snower

Wage Determination and Union Behaviour in Italy: An Efficiency Wage Interpretation

• Carlo Dell’Aringa, Claudio Lucifora