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Refereed journal articlesBoal, William M. 1990. "Unionism and Productivity in West Virginia Coal Mining." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43 (4): 390-405. [See "Replication" below.] Boal, William M. 1994. "Estimates of Unionism in West Virginia Coal, 1900-1935." Labor History 35 (3): 429-441. Boal, William M. 1994. "Union Response to Mechanization in U.S. Bituminous Coal." Labour Economics 1 (3/4): 243-267. Boal, William M. and John H. Pencavel. 1994. "The Effects of Labor Unions on Employment, Wages, and Days of Operation: Coal Mining in West Virginia." Quarterly Journal of Economics 109 (1): 267-298. Boal, William M. 1995. "Testing for Employer Monopsony in Turn-of-the-Century Coal Mining." RAND Journal of Economics 26 (3): 519-536. Boal, William M. and Michael R. Ransom. 1997. "Monopsony in the Labor Market." Journal of Economic Literature 35 (1): 86-112. Boal, William M. 2006. "New Estimates of Paid-up Membership in the United Mine Workers, 1902-29, by State and Province." Labor History 47 (4): 537-546. Boal, William M. 2009. "The Effect of Minimum Salaries on Employment of Teachers: A Test of the Monopsony Model." Southern Economic Journal 75 (3): 611-638. Boal, William M. 2009. "The Effect of Unionism on Accidents in U.S. Coal Mining, 1897-1929." Industrial Relations 48 (1): 97-120. (See "Errata" below.) Boal, William M. 2017. "The Effect of Unionism on Productivity: Evidence from a Long Panel of Coal Mines." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 70 (5): 1254-1282. DOI:10.1177/0019793916682222 (Data and TSP program) Boal, William M. 2017. "What Did Unions Do? The Case of Illinois Coal Mining in the 1880s." Journal of Labor Research 38 (4): 439-474. DOI:10.1007/s12122-017-9253-8 (Data and Stata do-files) Boal, William M. 2018. "Work Intensity and Worker Safety in Early Twentieth-Century Coal Mining." Explorations in Economic History 70: 132-149. DOI:10.1016/j.eeh.2018.08.001 (Data and Stata do-files) Other publicationsBoal, William M., Price V. Fishback and Shawn Kantor. 1994. "Why Did Coal Miners Work So Few Hours? Labor-Leisure Choice in the Face of Severe Time Constraints." In Ian Blanchard, ed., Labour and Leisure in Historical Perspective, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. Boal, William M. and Michael R. Ransom. "Monopsony in American Labor Markets." January 2002. Published in the EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History at http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/boal.monopsony.php. | |
Working papers |
Working papersBoal, William M. 1992. "The Unionization of West Virginia Coal, 1900-1935: A Chronology." (PDF) Boal, William M. 2016. "The Effect of Unionism on Accidents in U.S. Coal Mining, 1897-1929: Errata." (PDF) Boal, William M. 2016. "Unionism and Productivity in West Virginia Coal Mining: A Replication Study." (PDF) Boal, William M. 2022. "Shorter Hours and Productivity: Evidence from Bituminous Coal Mining." (PDF) |