This Research Handbook assembles the original work of leading legal and economic scholars, working in a variety of traditions and methodologies, on the economic analysis of labor and employment law. In addition to surveying the current state of the art on the economics of labor markets and employment relations, the volume's 17 chapters assess aspects of traditional labor law and union organizing, the law governing the employment contract and termination of employment, employment discrimination and other employer mandates, restrictions on employee mobility, and the forum and remedies for labor and employment claims. Comprising a variety of approaches, the Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law will appeal to legal scholars in labor and employment law, industrial relations scholars and labor economists.
Contents: PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Introduction: The Economics of Labor and Employment Law Cynthia Estlund and Michael Wachter 2. Neoclassical Labor Economics: Its Implications for Labor and Employment Law Michael Wachter 3. Economic Analysis of Labor Markets and Labor Law: An Institutional/ Industrial Relations Perspective Bruce Kaufman PART II: UNIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING 4. Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance Barry Hirsch 5. Union Organizing and the Architecture of Employee Choice Benjamin Sachs 6. The Deserved Demise of EFCA (and Why the NLRA Should Share its Fate) Richard Epstein 7. Costs of Noncompliance and the NLRA: An Analysis and Comparison with Other Public Policy Remedies Morris Kleiner and David Weil 8. Unions as Brokers of Employment Rights Stewart Schwab PART III: EMPLOYEE RIGHTS AND EMPLOYER MANDATES 9. Bias and the Law of the Workplace Christine Jolls 10. From Just Cause to Just Notice in Reforming Employment Termination Law Rachel Arnow-Richman 11. The Law and Economics of Employment Protection Legislation Simon Deakin 12. Intellectual Property Justifications for Restricting Employee Mobility: A Critical Appraisal in Light of the Economic Evidence Alan Hyde 13. Antidiscrimination in Employment: The Simple, the Complex, and the Paradoxical Samuel Issacharoff and Erin Scharff 14. The Forum for Adjudication of Employment Disputes Samuel Estreicher and Zev Eigen PART IV: CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVES 15. The Striking Success of the National Labor Relations Act Michael Wachter 16. Why Workers Still Need a Voice in the Era of Norms and Mandates Cynthia Estlund Index