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 …

This paper summarized some new evidence concerning the impact of collective bargaining on productivity for workers of a … productive than those that are nonunion. This positive union productivity effect is not an immutable constant. For example,in the … were significantly more productive in 1965.The routes by which unions affect productivity have not yet been carefully …

This paper presents an analytical framework that can be used to analyze the effects of unions on productivity in the … library productivity measures and because of the availability of data to implement the framework. Preliminary estimates are …

The effect of unionization on productivity is examined in this paper using time-series data on selected establishments … light on the question of how unionization affects productivity. The empirical results support the conclusion that … the gain in productivity derives from a series of extensive changes in management personnel and procedure. These …

establishments. The effect of these changes on establishment productivity, however, is unclear. Existing evidence is based on a … unions on productivity is examined in the present paper using establishment level data from the U.S. cement industry. The … supported in time series data, where a comparison of productivity before and after unionization reveals a positive union effect …

productivity so the paper examines the link between unions and productivity finding only a small association by the end of the 1990 …

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 …

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 …

productivity of skilled labor relative to unskilled labor, can potentially explain the above facts. Statistical analysis suggests …

incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west …. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been coming from the west, investment in equipment has fallen below the … west German per capita level, and convergence seems to have come to a halt at an overall labor productivity of only 55% of …