Labor Unions Reduce Product Quality(marginalrevolution.com)
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Labor Unions Reduce Product Quality
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/07/labor-unions-reduce-product-quality.html
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Or unionized firms have a culture where employees are more empowered to report dangerous and defective products to regulators without fear of getting fired, and so are more likely to have product recalls than non unionized firms. See, I can draw unwarranted conclusions based on my own prejudices too.
>See, I can draw unwarranted conclusions based on my own prejudices too.
They backed theirs up with a well written paper, so it not an unwarranted conclusion. It follows from their data. Did you read the paper? What in it is incorrect?
They backed theirs up with a well written paper, so it not an unwarranted conclusion. It follows from their data. Did you read the paper? What in it is incorrect?
The nurses in my city formed a labor union recently, and one of their key demands is to increase the number of nurses on duty at any given time- which will decrease wait times, decrease burnout, and increase standards of care.
Does the paper consider the quality differences between the South Carolina and Washington Boeing factories?
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The paper uses a dataset of all 6000+ recall events from the FDA, NHYSA, and CPSC for recalls, and the results of all 1,144 union elections during the same time frame for their analysis. It's a pretty comprehensive dataset, so I doubt they care much about two specific factories. They may not even have any recall events from those places.
The paper uses a dataset of all 6000+ recall events from the FDA, NHYSA, and CPSC for recalls, and the results of all 1,144 union elections during the same time frame for their analysis. It's a pretty comprehensive dataset, so I doubt they care much about two specific factories. They may not even have any recall events from those places.
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I wonder why supply-side unions and cooperatives are heavily political while consumer cooperatives never make the news.
I guess my first question would be, had the paper found otherwise, would marginalrevolution have blogged about it?
Looking at a Mercedes or BMW vs a Tesla I am not so sure I would agree.
Am I missing a non-paywalled link to the article itself? All I can click to so far is the abstract.
Yes seems to be just an abstract. There's also the weird sentence that the article was accepted by Gustavo Manso, so does that mean he was the reviewer? Was there only one?...
Makes it hard to see the actual methodology. Lot of heat and smoke in the comments for just an abstract.
A quick search for the title in DDG yields verbatim copies of the marginal revolution words, no actual paper. So it's not like anyone is actually writing for marginal revolution here.
A quick search for the title in DDG yields verbatim copies of the marginal revolution words, no actual paper. So it's not like anyone is actually writing for marginal revolution here.