Productivity Levels & Productivity Change Under Unionism

Industrial Relations - Tập 27 Số 1 - Trang 94-113 - 1988
Steven G. Allen1
1*Department of Economics and Business, North Carolina State University, and National Bureau of Economic Research

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This paper examines how unions affect the rate of productivity change. The direction of union impact cannot be predicted from economic theory. Firms may select either more productive technologies to offset higher union wages or less productive technologies to keep union wage demands in line. Evidence from manufacturing indicates that unions have not affected productivity growth; in construction, productivity growth has been much slower where there is a high initial level of unionization or where unionization is growing.

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Industrial Relations

Tập 27 Số 1

94-113

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