Can We Identify Union Productivity Effects?

John Addison and John Chilton

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Abstract: Contrary to recent criticism, the standard production function test can, in principle, reveal whether or not unionized workers or firms are more productive than their nonunion counterparts. In the long run, however, the forces of competition foreordain the result.

Keywords: unions; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J5 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993-01-01
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Published in Industrial Relations 1.32(1993): pp. 124-132

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