This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American … paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly small, effects on productivity, with the exception of Argentina, with a … productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …

appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … labour shares, growth in labour and total factor productivity, and capital deepening. We find (a) MGVA was understated by … productivity and capital deepening has been understated and growth in total factor productivity overstated (e) total factor …