Publication Bias in Union-Productivity Research?
¿ Publicación tendenciosa en la investigación sobre la productividad sindical ?
Existe-t-il un biais de publication dans la littérature consacrée au lien syndicat-productivité ?
Résumé
This paper develops and applies several meta-analytic
techniques to investigate the presence of publication bias in
industrial relations research, specifically in the union-productivity
effects literature. Publication bias arises when statistically insig-
nificant results are suppressed or when results satisfying prior
expectations are given preference. Like most fields, research in
industrial relations is vulnerable to publication bias. Unlike other
fields such as economics, there is no evidence of publication bias
in the union-productivity literature, as a whole. However, there are
pockets of publication selection, as well as negative autoregres-
sion, confirming the controversial nature of this area of research.
Meta-regression analysis reveals evidence of publication bias (or
selection) among U.S. studies.