TY  - JOUR
AU  - Blanchflower,David G.
AU  - Millward,Neil
AU  - Oswald,Andrew J.
TI  - Unionization and Employment Behavior
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3180
PY  - 1989
Y2  - November 1989
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3180
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3180.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David G. Blanchflower
Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics
6106 Rockefeller Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755-3514
Tel: 603/646-2536
Fax: 603/646-2122
E-Mail: David.G.Blanchflower@Dartmouth.EDU

Andrew Oswald
Department of Economics
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
England
Tel: 44-01203-5235
Fax: 44-01203-5230
E-Mail: a.j.oswald@warwick.ac.uk
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1990-03-01
AB  - Although there exists a large literature on the effects of trade unions upon wages, there is no published work that uses microeconomic data to examine the employment consequences of unionization. The paper addresses this issue with a new British data set and shows that, even after the addition of a substantial set of control variables, there is a strong association between poor employment performance and the presence of trade unions. The union employment growth differential is estimated at approximately -3% per annum. 
ER  -