unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance …. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a "collective voice" face but lack of "monopoly …

, institutional contexts and over time. Estimates of the causal mechanisms through which unions affect productivity allow a better … understanding of the effects of unions. The literature on the effect of unions on productivity recognizes that part of this effect …, which are essential factors of productivity growth. Recent studies dealing with the effects of unions on firm profits …

improves efficiency and reduces turnover and absenteeism. The effects on productivity depend on the type of scheme employed …

Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence …, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It also examines the impact of unions and training on earnings and a … measure of establishment labour productivity. In addition, the implications of training for the firm's bottom line are …

Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions and firm-provided training (incidence, intensity/coverage, and duration) on … but also by subjective measures of plant labor productivity and financial performance. Union effects on training are … for labor productivity and the firm's bottom line. While some negative effects of multiple unionism at the workplace now …

We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … combine panel data on individual worker's productivity from personnel records with a natural field experiment in which we … engineered an exogenous change in managerial incentives, from fixed wages, to bonuses based on the average productivity of the …