The effect of unions on employee benefits: Updated employer expenditure results

As a practical matter, employee benefits are probably more important than ever to workers and employers so research on various aspects of benefits continues to be important. A legitimate part of the ongoing research literature is periodically checking the earlier results to see which relationships have remained constant and which have changed. With respect to the connections between labor unions and employee benefits, the theoretical and empirical framework established by Freeman and Medoff’s (1984) two faces of unionism continues to (appropriately) dominate the contemporary research agenda.