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Can We Identify Union Productivity Effects?
Author(s) -
ADDISON JOHN T.,
CHILTON JOHN B.
Publication year - 1993
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/j.1468-232x.1993.tb01022.x
Subject(s) - productivity , competition (biology) , economics , production (economics) , function (biology) , criticism , nonunion , test (biology) , production function , labour economics , microeconomics , macroeconomics , biology , political science , law , ecology , anatomy , evolutionary biology
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.