TY  - GEN
AU  - TSENG, YI-PING
AU  - WOODEN, MARK
Y2  - 2014/05/22
Y1  - 2001/07
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/33639
AB  - The 1990s has seen bargaining, and more specifically, enterprising bargaining supplant      arbitration as the dominant industrial relations paradigm. In large part, this change reflects      widespread belief that enterprise bargaining would stimulate greater levels of productivity.      Evidence in support of this link between enterprise bargaining and productivity, however, is      both scant and unconvincing. In this paper the relationship between enterprise bargaining and      productivity is revisited using data from the Business Longitudinal Study. This data source is      unique in that it provides firm-level data for Australia where the individual firms are tracked      over a four-year period. Further, the survey period commenced in 1994-95, which is ideal for      studying the impacts of the emerging growth in enterprise agreement coverage. Finally, the      BLS data provide an objective measure of value added output.       Estimation of a simple production function using a random effects model revealed evidence of      a strong contemporaneous relationship between registered enterprise agreements and      productivity. Indeed, firms where all employees are on such agreements are estimated to have      productivity levels that are 8.8 per cent higher than comparable firms but where no employees      are covered by an enterprise agreement and are forced instead to rely on conditions specified      in an industry award. However, despite this finding, it still proved impossible to establish a      direct causal relationship between the introduction of enterprise agreements and subsequent      productivity growth.
N1  - application/pdf
LA  - eng
KW  - enterprising bargaining
KW  - Business Longitudinal Study
KW  - enterprise agreements
T1  - Enterprise Bargaining and Productivity:Evidence from the Business Longitudinal Survey
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ER  -