Long-run impacts of unions on firms: New evidence from financial markets, 1961-1999

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 333-378

  Lee, David S ^a   Mas, Alexandre ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL MARKET; LABOR RELATIONS; PRIVATE SECTOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STOCK MARKET;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863081448     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjr058     Document Type: Article

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