Publications by Lloyd Ulman
Wage Moderation and Rising Unemployment
January 1, 2005 • Working Papers • By Knut Gerlach, Lloyd Ulman and Paola Giuliano
An IMF Country report (01/2003) concluded that “wage moderation” played a more important role than reductions in employers’ social security contributions and replacement rates of unemployment compensation or the deregulation…
An essay on collective bargaining and unemployment in Germany
May 1, 2003 • Working Papers • By Knut Gerlach and Lloyd Ulman
Can Germany in the 1990s provide a contemporary example of the “uneasy triangle” posited by The Economist in the early 1950s? As the millennium approached, Germany’s inflation rate was very…
Why Should Human Resources Managers Pay High Wages?
February 1, 1992 • Working Papers • By Lloyd Ulman
Abstract This essay is about human resource management, internal labor markets, and assorted theories of wage behavior. A stereotype of managerial activities and policies is sketched out in the first…
Worker Representation-An Informal Overview
April 1, 1990 • Working Papers • By Lloyd Ulman
In the postwar period, worker representation in industry has meant, if not quite all things to all men, at least different things to different people. As a generic term, it…
Labor Market Analysis and Concerted Behavior
January 1, 1989 • Working Papers • By Lloyd Ulman
Abstract In the first part of this paper, the importance of concerted behavior by workers emerges from examination of some prominent theories which set out to explain wage rigidity in…
Who Wanted Collective Bargaining In The First Place
March 1, 1987 • Working Papers • By Lloyd Ulman
Abstract This paper considers certain international differences in organizational and bargaining expense with the aid of an extended model of industrial relations which is sketched at the outset. In this…