Deregulation and the labor market
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Deregulation has resulted in radical changes in labor relations in the trucking, airline, railroad and telecommunications industries. Empirical evidence shows that union membership rates and labor earnings premiums in the aforementioned sectors have declined in 1996. On the other hand, workforce size sharply increased in airlines and trucking, held steady in telecommunications and dramatically declined in railroads. Each industry also used differing approaches to reducing labor costs following deregulation.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0895-3309
Year: 1998
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Complexity, organization, and Stuart Kauffman's 'The Origins of Order.'
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The basic questions surrounding the economics of organization are about why there are observed variety in organizations, why the variety contains only one subset of all possible types and how and why organizational forms change over time in relation with their environments and other entities. Stuart Kauffmann's NK models investigates all these questions. Kauffman's framework is a vehicle to study the pattern of change in organizational forms.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 1996
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Protection and social order
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A study on individual decision making to protect wealth and property and its influence on social life is discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0167-2681
Year: 2006
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