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Unions and Employment Growth: The Canadian Experience
Author(s) -
WALSWORTH SCOTT
Publication year - 2010
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.2009.00591.x
Subject(s) - industrial relations , demographic economics , private sector , panel data , labour economics , survey data collection , british household panel survey , political science , economics , management , economic growth , mathematics , econometrics , statistics
Using panel data from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey, the union effect on employment growth is examined. In line with previous North American findings, private sector unions are found to slow employment growth by approximately 2.2 percent per annum. This study is modeled after two recent articles published in this journal; one using the Australian Workplace and Industrial Relations Survey and a subsequent article using the British Workplace and Industrial/Employee Relations Survey.