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The Growth of Union Decertification: A Test of Two Nonnested Theories
Author(s) -
Nilsson Eric A.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/0019-8676.561997019
Subject(s) - variance (accounting) , economics , econometrics , positive economics , test (biology) , neoclassical economics , geology , paleontology , accounting
This article tests two rival theories of the growth of union decertification: a neoclassical and an institutionalist. Both perform well when they are independently tested against the data. However, Cox nonnested hypothesis tests indicate that when these two theories are tested against each other, the institutionalist theory is superior to (i.e., variance encompasses) the neoclassical theory.