scholarly journals Private Sector Union Density and the Wage Premium: Past, Present, and Future

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry T. Hirsch ◽  
Edward J. Schumacher
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Sector Union ◽  
Private Sector Union

Interstate Variations in Private Sector Union Density in the U.S.

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behroz Baraghoshi ◽  
Cihan Bilginsoy
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Sector Union ◽  
Private Sector Union ◽  
The U.S

Union Threat Effects and the Decline in Employer-Provided Health Insurance

ILR Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-445
Author(s):  
Craig A. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
State Level ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Private Sector Union ◽  
Threat Effect

Employer-provided health insurance decreased by an average of almost 0.6 percentage points per year for adults aged 18 to 64 who were working full-time in the private sector between 1983 and 2007. Most of this decline was among non-union workers. This study reports estimates that suggest the decrease was caused by a decline employers faced in the threat of being unionized, as measured by the drop in state-level private-sector union density over the 25 years and across the 50 states. The author hypothesizes the decline in union density caused some non-union employers to decide not to offer health insurance. The study shows the importance of accounting for measurement error in union density when estimating the declining threat effect of unionization on non-union employer-provided health insurance coverage.

scholarly journals The Effects Of Unions On Wages By Occupation In The Public Sector

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Bitzan ◽  
Bahman Bahrami
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sector Union ◽  
Private Sector Union ◽  
Wage Premiums ◽  
Administrative Assistants ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public Sectors ◽  
Public Workers

This study examines union wage premiums by occupation in the public sector in the U.S. for the 2000-2004 period.  In examining union-nonunion wage differences for public sector workers in occupations accounting for 66 percent of all public workers in the 2000-2004 Current Population Survey, we find positive and statistically significant union premiums for 27 out of 41 occupations examined.  We also find large differences among occupations, with miscellaneous teachers and instructors receiving a 61 percent premium, secretaries and administrative assistants receiving a 5 percent premium, and 14 occupations receiving no statistically significant premium.  In comparing union premiums by occupation between the private and public sectors, we find, in most cases, that private sector premiums are larger than public sector premiums.  Finally, an Oaxaca decomposition shows that the majority of the differential between private sector union premiums and public sector union premiums appears to be due to differences in the way unions reward workers in the private and public sectors, not because of differences in the types of workers in the private and public sectors.

Labor's Enduring Divide: The Distinct Path of Public Sector Unions in the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis N. Walker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Union Density ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Sector Union ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Public Sector Unions

Why did public sector unionization rise so dramatically and then plateau at the same time as private sector unionization underwent a precipitous decline? The exclusion of public sector employees from the centerpiece of private sector labor law—the 1935 Wagner Act—divided U.S. labor law and relegated public sector demand-making to the states. Consequently, public sector employees' collective bargaining rights were slow to develop and remain geographically concentrated, unequal and vulnerable. Further, divided labor law put the two movements out of alignment; private sector union density peaked nearly a decade before the first major statutes granting public sector collective bargaining rights passed. As a result of this incongruent timing and sequencing, the United States has never had a strong union movement comprised of both sectors at the height of their membership and influence.

scholarly journals Union Decline: Lessons from Alberta

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-203
Author(s):  
Yonatan Reshef ◽  
Alan I. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Real Wage ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Sector Union ◽  
Private Sector Union ◽  
Union Decline ◽  
Economic Measure

This paper tests whether an inconsistency exists between unions' industrial relations philosophies and their abilities to secure real wage gains. One economic measure and two attitudinal measures are related to union membership. The influence of these measures on both the likelihood that a person is a union member and union membership's impact upon these measures are simultaneously estimated. The implications of the results for private-sector union decline in Canada are then discussed.

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