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The Effect of Unionism on Productivity in Privately and Publicly Owned Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Allen, Steven G. - 1985

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 contractors is much greater in private than in...

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Productivity Levels and Productivity Change Under Unionism

Allen, Steven G. - 1987

This paper examines how unions affect the rate of productivity change over time. The direction of union impact cannot be predicted from economic theory. Firms may tend to select more productive technologies to offset the cost of higher union wages or they may tend to select less productive...

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Unions and Efficiency in Private Sector Construction : Further Evidence

Allen, Steven G. - 1987

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 studies has been questioned in light of the declining...

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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - 2006

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The new empirical economics of management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - 2014

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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity

Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016

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Management as a technology

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nick - 2006

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Manova, Kalina; Bloom, Nicholas; Sun, Stephen Teng; Van … - 2018

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