TY  - JOUR
AU  - Allen,Steven G.
TI  - The Effect of Unionism on Productivity in Privately and Publicly Owned Hospitals and Nursing Homes
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1649
PY  - 1985
Y2  - June 1985
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1649
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1649.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Steven G. Allen
Jenkins Graduate School of Management
NC State University
2124 Nelson Hall
Raleigh, NC  27695-7229
Tel: 919/515-6941
Fax: 919/515-5073
E-Mail: STEVE_ALLEN@NCSU.EDU
AB  - This paper examines the effect of unions on productivity within a sample of publicly and privately owned hospitals and nursing homes to determine whether public ownership influences union behavior. The results show that the productivity of union contractors is much greater in private than in public projects. Within the sample of private projects, the estimates of the union-nonunion productivity difference are generally positive but very imprecise.
ER  -