Unions and Productivity, Financial Performance and Investment: International Evidence
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I acknowledge, with thanks, efficient research assistance by Doris Schedlitzki who is the joint author of the material on Germany; and very helpful comments on an earlier draft from Alex Bryson, Sue Fernie, Rafael Gomez, Morris Kleiner and John Pencavel. This paper is produced under the Leverhulme Trust funded Programme on the The Future of Unions in Modern Britain being undertaken in the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE.
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