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

ISBN-13: 9780367667894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 190 str.

Hristos Doucouliagos; Richard B. Freeman; Patrice Laroche

Opis

The Economics of Trade Unions offers the first comprehensive review, analysis and evaluation of the empirical literature on the microeconomic effects of trade unions. The book applies 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 effect

Spis treści

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 Medoff’s 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

O autorze

Hristos Doucouliagos is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, and the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia.

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research/Science Engineering Workforce Projects and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance, UK.

Patrice Laroche is Professor of Human Resource Management and Labor Relations at the ISAM-IAE Nancy (Université de Lorraine) and at the ESCP Europe Business School, France.