Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, Richard Epstein, survivor principle, unions Tags: affirmative, employment law, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, union power, union wage premium
Does neoclassical macroeconomics rule out depressions?
27 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, econometerics, economic history, Edward Prescott, global financial crisis (GFC), great depression, great recession, history of economic thought, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, public economics, Robert E. Lucas, unemployment, unions Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, real business cycle theory

Will @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren revive unions from the dead?
10 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, politics - USA, unions Tags: 2020 presidential election, union power

In California, Protecting Workers Means Outlawing Their Jobs
06 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm, unions Tags: employment law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Do Unions Raise Wages?
24 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply, unions Tags: union power, union wage premium
Milton Friedman (1951) on union power is over-rated
13 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, unions Tags: union power, union wage premium

The union wage premium is no more
29 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in econometerics, labour economics, unions Tags: union wage premium







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