Union Effects on Productivity, Profits, and Growth: Has the Long Run Arrived?
This article interprets literature examining union effects on economic performance. Production function studies indicate small overall union impacts on productivity; positive effects, where they exist, appear to result from management response to decreased profit expectations and from a natural selection process. Lower profitabilit y among unionized firms is well established; more interesting is the possibility that unions appropriate quasi-rents deriving from long-lived tangible and intangible capital. The connection between unions, investment behavior, and productivity growth emerges as a particularly fruitful line of empirical inquiry, although it does not encourage a sanguine view of unionism's long-run impact. Copyright 1989 by University of Chicago Press.
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1989
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Authors: | Addison, John T ; Hirsch, Barry T |
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Journal of Labor Economics. - University of Chicago Press. - Vol. 7.1989, 1, p. 72-105
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University of Chicago Press |
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