Unions and Productivity, Financial Performance and Investment: International Evidence

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Little innovation, many jobs. An econometric analysis of the Italian labour productivity crisis (2010, background): “Third, there is a possibility that well-protected and powerful personnel could appropriate rents from innovation and productivity gains through higher wage claims, thus reducing the incentive to take innovative risks (Malcomson, 1997; Menezhes-Filho and Van Reenen, 2003; Metcalf, 2002).”
Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment? (2007, background): “The usual example given is employer capture of the quasi rents accruing to workers from their coinvestments in firm-specific human capital (Metcalf, 2003), which problem is commonly ‘elided’ by noting that the firm is longer lived than the employment relation and that its owners (unlike union…”
Employee voice and organizational performance: Team versus representative influence (2010, background): “…play a monitoring role on behalf of the employer; unions negotiate a set of workplace characteristics that conform closely to workers’ preferences and improve employees’ morale, motivation, and cooperation; unions make managers less lethargic; and unions stop exploitation of labor (Metcalf, 2003).”