Union wage premiums by gender and race: evidence from PSID 1980-1992

Article Abstract:

We find that the overall union wage premium is relatively stable (ranging from 22.3 to 28.4 percent), but there seems to be a convergence of union wage premiums across different demographic groups between 1980 and 1992. Nonwhite men (whose premium ranges from 23.5 to 36.2 percent) show the largest gain, followed by white women (17.1 to 30.5 percent), white men (19 to 26.4 percent) and nonwhite women (10 to 20 percent). One explanation for this convergence of union wage premiums might be the "equalization hypothesis" associated with unions. This converging trend could have important implications for the future of unions. If union membership can explain a portion of the gender/racial wage gap, and if women/nonwhites can obtain, through union membership significant wage premia, increased female/nonwhite union participation in highly unionized sectors that offer high union wage gains could, in time, greatly decrease the gender/racial wage differential. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Labor Unions, Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations, Research, Economic aspects, Demographic aspects, Wages, Wages and salaries, Sex differences, Race

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Private sector union decline and structural employment change, 1970-1988

Article Abstract:

Studies of the large decline in private sector unionism during the 1970s and 1980s focus on explanations particular to those decades and attribute an inconsequential role to the employment shift from goods-producing to service-producing industries. Using an adapted version of the Ashenfelter-Pencavel model, this research finds stable parameter estimates between the two decades and the earlier post-Wagner Act years. Not only are decade-specific explanations found to be unnecessary in understanding membership decline, but the pivotal relationship in the decline is the relative shift in the employment distribution away from the traditionally strongly unionized industries. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Analysis, Employment, Private sector

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The determinants of union membership growth in Taiwan

Article Abstract:

This paper examines the determinants of intertemporal variation in the growth rate of trade union membership in Taiwan during 1960-1987. The empirical results indicate that the widely used empirical model of growth in trade union membership based largely on cyclical variables applies to the case of a newly industrialized Asian country - Taiwan. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Taiwan

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