Unions and Profits: A Meta-Regression Analysis

• Published in: Industrial relations (Berkeley) Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 146 - 184
• Main Authors: DOUCOULIAGOS, HRISTOS, LAROCHE, PATRICE
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.01.2009; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Business administration; Business studies; Cluster analysis; Correlation analysis; Econometrics; Economic impact analysis; Humanities and Social Sciences; Labor unions; Labour relations; Markets; Profit; Profits; Studies; Trade unionism; Trade unions; U.S.A; Unions; United States of America; United States > US; méta-analyse; meta-analysis; profit; syndicalisme; Unions

The effect of unions on profits continues to be an unresolved theoretical and empirical issue. In this paper, clustered data analysis and hierarchical linear meta-regression models are applied to the population of forty-five econometric studies that report 532 estimates of the direct effect of union...