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Michael Wallerstein Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Professor; Research Faculty, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research.

Comparative political economy and formal theory. He is currently engaged in research on collective bargaining institutions, wage policies, unemployment and welfare programs in advanced industrial societies.

Publications include "Structural Dependence of State on Capital" (co-authored with Adam Przeworski) and "Union Organization in Advanced Industrial Democracies," both in the American Political Science Review, "Centralized Bargaining and Wage Restraint" in the American Journal of Political Science, "Trade Union Behavior, Pay Bargaining, and Economic Performance" (Oxford University Press) co-authored with Robert (Flanagan and Karl Moene), "Unions, Employers' Associations and Wage-Setting Institutions in North and Central Europe" in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review (co-authored with Miriam Golden and Peter Lange) and "Pay Inequality" in the Journal of Labor Economics (co-authored with Karl Moene). 

[e-mail: m-wallerstein@northwestern.edu]

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