TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sojourner,Aaron J.
AU  - Town,Robert J.
AU  - Grabowski,David C.
AU  - Chen,Michelle M.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Impacts of Unionization on Employment, Product Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence From Nursing Homes 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - January 2012; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects. Some evidence suggests that nursing homes in less competitive local product markets and those with lower union density at the time of election experienced stronger union employment effects. Unionization appears to raise wages for a given worker while also shifting the composition of the workforce away from higher-earning workers. By combining credible identification of union effects, a comprehensive set of outcomes over time with measures of market-level characteristics, this study generates some of the best evidence available on many controversial questions in the economics of unions. Furthermore, it generates evidence from the service sector, which has grown in importance and where evidence has been thin
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w17733
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17733
ER  -