Using on data from the 1987/88 UK Survey of Incomes In and Out of Work, proposes a simple test of one prominent version of the efficiency wage model, the shirking model of Shapiro and Stiglitz (1984) which focuses directly on the issue of whether involuntary unemployment exists or not.

The contributors explore the reasons why involuntary unemployment happens when supply equals demand.

How legislators pursue their policy agenda and represent their constituents

At present much of political science consists of a large body of formal mathematical work that remains largely unexplored empirically and an expanding use of sophisticated statistical techniques. While there are examples of noteworthy efforts to bridge the gap between these, there is still a need for much more cooperative work between formal theorists and empirical researchers in the discipline. This book explores how empirical analysis has, can, and should be used to evaluate formal models in political science. The book is intended to be a guide for active and future political scientists who are confronting the issues of empirical analysis with formal models in their work and as a basis for a needed dialogue between empirical and formal theoretical researchers in political science. These developments, if combined, are potentially a basis for a new revolution in political science.