Doucouliagos, Christos and Laroche, Patrice 2003, Publication bias in industrial relations research, in Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and new Zealand, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ), Waikato, NZ.
Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and new Zealand
Editor(s)
Julian Tetcher
Publication date
2003
Series
AIRAANZ Conferences
Total pages
11 pp
Publisher
Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ)
Place of publication
Waikato, NZ
Summary
Publication bias arises when statistically non-significant results are suppressed or when only results satisfying prior expectations are published. Like most fields, research in industrial relations is vulnerable to publication bias. In this paper qualitative and quantitative techniques are used in order to detect publication bias in the union-productivity effects literature. We find no evidence of publication bias in this literature, although there does appear to be autoregression in the published results.