Unions and productivity growth: A meta-analytic review

Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 57-82

  Doucouliagos, Chris ^a   Laroche, Patrice ^a  

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