This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on establishment and firm level collective bargaining coverage. Evidence on the relationship of unions with...

In the present paper it will be shown that trade unions have a positive impact on economic growth. This finding is in agreement with the works of (Tapio Palokangas, 1996; 2000; 2004; 2005); (Grieben and Şener, 2008) and it refers to the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,...

In recent times, various aspects of labour unionism have been the subject of numerous studies by economists, historians, lawyers, political scientists, psychologists and specialists in other disciplines but none of these have been able to empirically determine the major factors that propel...

This research work provides some review of unionism in Nigeria within the period of 1975 and 2004. Using regression analysis, a good explanatory variable was identified that explains economic condition which is reflected in the cost of living (proxied by the rate of inflation) and nominal wage....

Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in China's Guangdong and Zhejiang Provinces, the author asks how post-socialist unions respond to worker unrest and why the development of sectoral-level bargaining has been uneven in different regions of China. While Zhejiang has had relative success in...

This paper examines how unionization affects economic growth through its impact on industry concentration in a two-country model of international trade and endogenous productivity growth. Knowledge spillovers link firm-level productivity in innovation with geographic patterns of industry...

Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity...