The Effect of Unionization on Employment Growth of Canadian Companies

An investigation of the relationships between compensation practices and firm performance in the US hotel industry

“…Prior research suggest that unionization status (Ichniowski and Delaney, 1990;Becker and Olson, 1992), size of the hotel (Long, 1993), and waiting period for benefit eligibility (Gross and Friedman, 2004) may influence the effect of compensation systems on organizational performance. Therefore, these variables were included in the data analyses as control variables.…”

Unions and the Employment Growth: Panel Data Evidence

“…Following Long (1993), at least three routes through which unions reduce employment growth can be identified. First, through their ability to withhold labor supplies, unions are presumed to seek and capture a share of monopoly rents for their members.…”

Geographical and Gender Differences in Labor Force Participation: Is there an Appalachian Effect?

“…Most studies have found that unions increase wages 10 to 20 percent (Lewis 1986;Ehrenberg and Smith 1991). Two recent studies concluded that unionized plants and firms have roughly 4 percent less employment growth a year than non-union ones (Leonard 1992;Long 1993). Dorsey (1991, p. 52) argues that "casual observation suggests that organized labor supports public policies to restrict or discourage aggregate labor supply (immigration and maximum hours legislation, higher social security and pension benefits, for example)," and he uses the percentage of the work force belonging to a union as a "proxy for other state policies which also may lower aggregate participation."…”