This paper examines the effect of unions on productivity within a sample of publicly and privately owned hospitals and … nursing homes to determine whether public ownership influences union behavior. The results show that the productivity of union …-nonunion productivity difference are generally positive but very imprecise …

According to unpublished data compiled by BLS, productivity in the construction industry reached a peak in 1968 and … this productivity decline between 1968 and 1978 by estimating a production function to assign weights to various factors … responsible for productivity change and deriving a new price deflator for construction which does not rely on labor or material …

unionism and productivity and discusses its implications for future research on more general issues. The main focus is on (I …) conclusions as to whether unions raise or lower productivity and (2) procedures used to identify the channels through which unions … affect productivity. The studies of unions and productivity have documented large productivity differences between seemingly …

This paper examines how unions affect the rate of productivity change over time. The direction of union impact cannot … manufacturing indicates that unions have not affected productivity growth, but in the construction industry productivity growth has …

pension coverage is associated with higher productivity, a proposition that is supported by indirect evidence on pensions …, turnover, and productivity but not by direct tests of how pension coverage and productivity are correlated …

Previous studies using micro data to estimate the impact of unions on productivity in construction in the early 1970's … have found productivity to be higher for union than nonunion contractors in the private sector. The validity of these …-nonunion productivity differences over a sample of retail stores and shopping centers built in the late 1970's. It finds that square footage …