Labor unionization and real earnings management: evidence from labor elections

By exploiting the local randomness in close-call labor elections, the authors find a negative impact of labor unionization at a firm on its real earnings management (REM). The finding suggests a managerial pressure effect of increased labor power. In a local regression discontinuity (RD) analysis, f...

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Main Authors: Astvansh, Vivek, Wang, Beibei, Chen, Tao, Qu, Jimmy Chengyuan
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178302