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Trade Unions in the Production Process
Abstract
In order to estimate the effects of unions on worker productivity, a Cobb-Douglas production function is modified so that unionization is included as a variable. The resulting functional form is similar to that used to isolate the effect of worker quality in previous studies. Using state by two-digit SIC observations for U.S. manufacturing, unionization is found to have a substantial positive effect on output per worker. However, this result depends on two important assumptions which we cannot verify directly; attempts to relax these assumptions are not conclusive.
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- Authors
- Brown, C., & Medoff, J.
- Venue
- Journal of Political Economy
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1978-06
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 355-378
- ISSN
- 0022-3808 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-534X
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- W2039057959
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- 380
- References
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- 71.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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