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Title: Labor Quality Upgrading and Restrictive Hiring Practices in Union Workplaces
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Krishnan, Jayanthi |
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Labor Quality Upgrading and Restrictive Hiring Practices in Union Workplaces Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1990 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Control; Firms; Job Turnover; Labor Supply; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Unions This dissertation is concerned with the issue of rationing of scarce union jobs. A number of alternative rationing devices are possible: a simple lottery, job queues and positive selection. The conjecture that unionized employers upgrade the quality of labor they hire (positive selection) appears frequently in the literature. This dissertation addresses two questions: (1) What is the impact of the locus of hiring control (employer or union) on quality upgrading in unionized jobs. (2) What determines the locus of union control. A model of hiring by unions is used to show that incumbent workers in a unionized firm would upgrade quality of new hires as long as they attach more value to their own rents than to the rents of newcomers. The hypothesis suggested by this analysis, that upgrading in union-controlled-hiring situations if less than or equal to that in employer-controlled-hiring situations, is tested using data from the NLSY. The results indicate that upgrading of labor quality does not differ across union-controlled and employer-controlled sectors. The effect of union power is ambiguous. These hypotheses are tested with interindustry data on the prevalence of the closed shop in 1946, the year before it was made illegal (Taft-Hartley Act) in 1979. The results strongly support the hypothesis that unions tend to control hiring in situations of high job turnover. |
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Krishnan, Jayanthi. Labor Quality Upgrading and Restrictive Hiring Practices in Union Workplaces. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1990. |