Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89988 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7673
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This paper employs newly developed quantile regression approaches to investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to restrict economic efficiency in the post-reform period; (iii) union practices on technology acquisition have an adverse effect on high-productivity growth industries. Productivity seems to improve in an economy promoting policies to weaken industry-wide collective bargaining.
Subjects: 
quantile regression
manufacturing
productivity
work practices
JEL: 
J52
O14
O43
O54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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