Flexibility is of great interest to policy makers and in the popular policy debate, unions are believed to be a main impediment ot achieving it. However, these beliefs are not based on firm empirical foundations. using a new dataset on U.S. three digit manufacturing industries from 1971-1994, we quantify, for the first time, Stigler's concept of output flexibility, estimate input flexibility and quantify the effects of unionization for both.
Download Info
To our knowledge, this item is not available for
download. To find whether it is available, there are three
options:
1. Check below under "Related research" whether another version of this item is available online.
2. Check on the provider's web page
whether it is in fact available.
3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be
available.
Publisher Info
Paper provided by La Trobe - Department of Economics in its series Papers with number
00.04.