The Impact of Collective Bargaining: Illusion or Reality?

摘要: This paper reviews a significant body of evidence regarding the impact trade unionism on economic performance and seeks to evaluate antithetical views whether estimated differences between union nonunion workers firms represent: illusions created by poor experiments, real effects explicable solely in price-theoretic terms, or which reflect non wage-related dimensions unions. The review yields conclusions both substantive questions at hand methodologies have been used address their validity. With respect illusion/reality debate, preponderance extant indicates that wide variety variables with cross-sectional data are real. Moreover, since unions nonwage outcomes generally come from models hold fixed level wages affected wages, supports view do much more than simply raise as an monopolist. While, this study, we not examine interpretations these effects, represent empirical foundation for "institutional" unionism, is described Section I. methods evaluating quality standard some techniques appear useful others. In particular, find sensitivity analyses single-equation results longitudinal experiments provide valuable checks findings while multiple-equations approaches produce too unstable help resolve concern.