This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer … tougher selection among hetero- geneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less … model to a two-country setup, I furthermore show that the positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity …

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies … of identical firms. This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm … tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less …

This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer … tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less … model to a two-country setup, I furthermore show that the positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity …

coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with wages, productivity, profitability, investment, debt, employment growth …

coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with wages, productivity, profitability, investment, debt, employment growth …

suggest that unionism is often associated with higher productivity but this relationship might vary across industries …, institutional contexts and over time. Estimates of the causal mechanisms through which unions affect productivity allow a better … understanding of the effects of unions. The literature on the effect of unions on productivity recognizes that part of this effect …

, productivity, innovation, and survivability – in a RDD framework where the controls comprise establishments that negotiated over … establishment performance. Indeed, the positive effects reported for wages, productivity, and innovation are sustained in …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …