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Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. James Peoples

    1. University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, USA

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 61)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction and Overview

    • James Peoples
    Pages 1-14

  3. Regulation and Deregulation in Surface Freight, Airlines and Telecommunications

    • Curtis Grimm, Robert J. Windle, Barnali Gupta
    Pages 15-60

  4. Earnings and Employment in Trucking: Deregulating a Naturally Competitive Industry

    • Barry T. Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, Marcus Alexis
    Pages 61-124

  5. Railroad Deregulation and Union Labor Earnings

    • Wayne K. Talley, Ann V. Schwarz-Miller, Michael Belzer
    Pages 125-182

  6. Deregulation and Labor Earnings in the Airline Industry

    • David Card, Lisa Saunders
    Pages 183-247

  7. Labor Negotiations with Regional Monopolies: The Telecommunication Industry

    • Wallace Hendricks, Debashis Pal
    Pages 249-286

  8. Regulated Industries and Measures of Earnings Discrimination

    • John S. Heywood, Kaye G. Husbands
    Pages 287-362

  9. Concluding Observations

    • James Peoples
    Pages 363-374

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 375-390
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, USA

    James Peoples

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets

  • Editors: James Peoples

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4856-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8065-8Published: 30 November 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6034-9Published: 12 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4856-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 390

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Industrial Organization, Labor Economics

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