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The Economics of Trade Unions "A Study of a Research Field and Its Findings"

The Economics of Trade Unions "A Study of a Research Field and Its Findings"

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  • ISBN:9781138888302
  • Editorial: Routledge
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  • Nº Pág.:190
  • Idiomas:Ingles,Inglés

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Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoffs now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do? stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economicimpact of trade unions. Trade unions continue to be a significant feature of many labormarkets, particularly in developing countries, and issues of labor market regulationsand labor institutions remain critically important to researchers and policy makers.

The relations between unions and management can range between cooperation and conflict; unions have powerful offsetting wage and non-wage effects that economists and other social scientists have long debated. Do the benefits of unionism exceed the costs to the economy and society writ large, or do the costs exceed the benefits? The Economics of Trade Unions offers the first comprehensive review, analysis and evaluation of the empirical literature on the microeconomic effects of trade unions using the tools of meta-regression analysis to identify and quantify the economic impact of trade unions, as well as to correct research design faults, the effects of selection bias and model misspecification.

This volume makes use of a unique dataset of hundreds of empirical studies and their reported estimates of the microeconomic impact of trade unions. Written by three authors who have been at the forefront of this research field (including the co-author of the original volume, What Do Unions Do?), this book offers an overview of a subject that is of huge importance to scholars of labor economics, industrial and employee relations, and human resource management, as well as those with an interest in meta-analysis.

Introduction: why study studies of unionism?

Meta-analysis as arbiter in debates

Structure of the book

1 A bibliometric analysis of What Do Unions Do?

Freeman and Medoffs research agenda

Approach and data

Analysis

Summary

2 Research synthesis through meta-regression analysis

The core challenge of inference

Collecting and coding meta-data

Effect size

Meta-averages

Multiple meta-regression analysis

Summary

3 Unions and productivity: direct estimates

Unions and productivity levels

Unions and productivity in manufacturing industries

Unions and productivity in other industries

Summary

4 Unions and productivity growth

Unions and productivity growth: new data for an old issue

Summary

5 Unions and productivity: investment channels

Unions and physical capital investment

Unions and investment in intangible capital

Summary

6 Unions and productivity: employee behavior channels

Unions and employee turnover

Unions and job satisfaction

Unions and organizational commitment

Summary

7 Unions and financial performance of firms

Unions and profits

Summary

8 Summary and conclusions

Findings on union effects

Measured and unmeasured artifacts in research of union effects

Challenges for future research and policy

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