What do unions do for economic performance?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?
The publication in 1984 of Richard Freeman and James Medoff’s What Do Unions Do?, which summarized and synthesized results from their broad-based research program, was a landmark in labor economics and industrial relations. What Do Unions Do? quickly changed the subject matter and approach for scholars studying unions. The models (or descriptions) of unions employed by labor economists were ext...
متن کاملA Critique of What Do Unions Do?
P rofessors Freeman and Medoff have created quite a stir with What Do Unions Do?—the first substantial pro-union book by economists in decades. The book has drawn an extraordinary amount of (mostly favorable) attention, with articles in magazines such as Business Week and Fortune, a full-scale symposium in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and coverage in many academic journals. All the at...
متن کاملWhat Do Unions Do to Executive Compensation?
We estimate the relation between union presence and executive compensation using a unique panel of executives in publicly listed US firms during the period 1992-2001. We find evidence that union presence is associated with lower levels of total executive compensation. We find this union effect to be primarily the result of substantially lower stock option awards, and to a lesser extent due to l...
متن کاملWhat Do Unions Do in Japan?
This paper examines the union premium in wages and overall compensation packages, using a new, nationally representative Japanese micro data set that records individuals’ union status. We find a robust union wage premium for both males and females. An Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition reveals that about one third of union workers’ higher wage is explained by the difference in the wage structures of ...
متن کاملManifestations of Economic Resilience in Hospitals: What do managers say?
Introduction: The area of healthcare requires crucial measures in the area of economic resilience. Regarding the important role of hospital managers in reaching the healthcare goals and realizing instances of the economic resilience in hospitals, the present study was conducted. The aim was to explore the perception of educational and healthcare centers’ managers in Isfahan regarding the concep...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Labor Research
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0195-3613,1936-4768
DOI: 10.1007/s12122-004-1023-8