A study on the effects of union density found that tax subsidies for Norwegian unions led to ‘substantial increases’ in firm productivity and wages, increases that grew even larger the more productive a firm was or the more bargaining power a union had. Researchers established a correlation between union density and productivity by first looking at how tax subsidies affect union membership.
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