in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union …

level, raises the amount of investment per worker in the economy compared to a one-tier bargaining scheme, in which earnings … investment per worker and the presence of a two-tier bargaining agreement that we find in a representative sample of Italian …

firms' investment in capital depends on the structure and coordination of bargaining, the preference of unions between wages …

firms' investment in capital depends on the structure and coordination of bargaining, the preference of unions between wages …

productivity gains to investment and an incentive plan, we are left with a large unexplained component. Learning by experimentation …We document the evolution of productivity in a steel mini mill with fixed capital, producing an unchanged product with …, or tweaking, seems to be behind the continual and gradual process of productivity growth. The findings suggest that …