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 …

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 …

-country model of international trade and endogenous productivity growth. Knowledge spillovers link firm-level productivity in …

sketched a ∪. A model of unions is developed to analyze these facts. There is a distribution of productivity across firms in …, which affects the productivity of skilled labor relative to unskilled labor, can potentially explain the observed paths for …