The impact of unions on productivity growth has received extensive attention from researchers in industrial relations and economics. Despite a voluminous literature, controversy continues regarding the effect of unions on productivity growth. In this paper, meta-analysis and meta-regression...

The impact of employee relations on performance has received much attention. Theory predicts that employee relations will impact on efficiency as well as productivity, yet researchers usually assume a production process that is fully efficient. In this paper, the stochastic production frontier...

The impact of unions on profitability is investigated through a comprehensive meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis of the available literature. Drawing upon 57 published empirical studies, with 91,200 observations, the paper establishes a negative and statistically significant union-profit...

A number of conflicting theoretical hypotheses have been advanced regarding the impact of unions on investment behavior. The net impact of unions on investment is thus an empirical issue. In this paper the available empirical literature is reviewed. In addition, new evidence of the impact of...

Publication bias arises when statistically non-significant results are suppressed or when only results satisfying prior expectations are published. Like most fields, research in industrial relations is vulnerable to publication bias. In this paper, qualitative and quantitative techniques are...

The impact of unions on productivity has been an important area of debate in industrial relations and economics. The theoretical and empirical literature has produced conflicting results. In this paper, meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis is used to quantify the association between unions...

L'etape preliminaire a toute recherche consiste a examiner la litterature portant sur son objet d'etude. Une des formes que ce processus peut prendre consiste a generaliser les resultats d'etudes singulieres, c'est-a-dire realiser une revue integrative de la litterature. Cette demarche de...

L’objectif de cette contribution est d’étudier l’effet de la présence syndicale sur la perception du climat social par les salariés et par les employeurs au sein d’un même établissement. Les données sont issues des volets « salariés » et « employeurs » de l’enquête REPONSE...

Cet article expose les principaux résultats d’une étude consacrée au lien entre la présence syndicale et la rentabilité des entreprises en France. A partir d’un échantillon de 2 978 établissements français, issu de l’enquête REPONSE 1998 (Relations Professionnelles et...