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Do Unions Impact Efficiency?: Evidence from the U.S. Manufacturing Sector


Pandej Chintrakarn


affiliation not provided to SSRN

Yi-Yi Chen


affiliation not provided to SSRN
July 2011

Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp. 431-440, 2011

Abstract:     
This study investigates the impact of labor unions on productivity and technical inefficiency of the U.S. manufacturing sector, using state‐level panel data on 48 states from 1983 to 1996. The results indicate that while labor unions reduce firms' technical progress, they improve firm efficiency in utilizing the existing technology. The findings also suggest that the decline of unionization rate in the sample period impaired firms' technical efficiency by 2.4 percentage points.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 10

JEL Classification: C33, C51, O51, J51

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Date posted: June 25, 2011  

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Chintrakarn, Pandej and Chen, Yi-Yi, Do Unions Impact Efficiency?: Evidence from the U.S. Manufacturing Sector (July 2011). Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp. 431-440, 2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1871534 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7287.2010.00228.x

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