Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets

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 rese...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Peoples, James (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Recent Economic Thought
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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