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What Do Unions Do to Productivity? A Meta‐Analysis
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In this article, the impact of unions on productivity was explored using meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis, and it was shown that most of the variation in published results is due to specification differences between studies.Abstract:
The impact of unions on productivity is explored using meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis. It is shown that most of the variation in published results is due to specification differences between studies. After controlling for differences between studies, a negative association between unions and productivity is established for the United Kingdom, whereas a positive association is established for the United States in general and for U.S. manufacturing.read more
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Beyond Publication Bias
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider several meta-regression and graphical methods that can differentiate genuine empirical effect from publication bias, and apply them to four areas of empirical economics research: minimum wage effects, union productivity effects, price elasticity, and natural rate hypothesis.
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Democracy and Economic Growth: A Meta‐Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a quantitative assessment of the democracy-growth literature is presented, which concludes that democracy has robust, significant, and positive indirect effects through higher human capital, lower inflation, lower political instability, and higher levels of economic freedom.
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Publication Selection Bias in Minimum‐Wage Research?: A Meta‐Regression Analysis
TL;DR: This paper showed that the minimum wage effects literature is contaminated by publication selection bias, which they estimate to be slightly larger than the average reported minimum wage effect, and that little or no evidence of a negative association between minimum wages and employment remains.
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Does Environmental Management Improve Financial Performance? A Meta-Analytical Review
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Meta‐Regression Methods for Detecting and Estimating Empirical Effects in the Presence of Publication Selection*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the small-sample performance of meta-regression methods for detecting and estimating genuine empirical effects in research literatures tainted by publication selection, and they found that the proposed methods are robust against publication selection.
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