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Article Dans Une Revue Industrial Relations Année : 2009

Unions and Profits: A meta-regression Analysis

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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 unions on profits. Unions have a significant negative effect on profits in the United States, and this effect is larger when market-based measures of profits are used. Separate meta-regression analyses are used to identify the effects of market power and long-lived assets on profits, as well as the sources of union-profit effects. The accumulated evidence rejects market power as a source of union-profit effects. While the case is not yet proven, there is some evidence in support of the appropriation of quasi-rent hypothesis. There is a clear need for further American and non-American primary research in this area.
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hal-00648569 , version 1 (13-12-2011)

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Hristos Doucouliagos, Patrice Laroche. Unions and Profits: A meta-regression Analysis. Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (1), pp.146-184. ⟨10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00549.x⟩. ⟨hal-00648569⟩
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