scholarly journals Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Bryson ◽  
Harald Dale-Olsen ◽  
Kristine Nergaard
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Union Wage ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Union Wage Premium

scholarly journals Gender differences in the union wage premium? A comparative case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Bryson ◽  
Harald Dale-Olsen ◽  
Kristine Nergaard
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Union Wage ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Wage Returns ◽  
Union Wage Premium ◽  
Male Dominated

Trade unions have changed from being male dominated to majority-female organizations. We use linked employer–employee surveys for Norway and Britain to examine whether, in keeping with a median voter model, the gender shift in union membership has resulted in differential wage returns to unionization among men and women. In Britain, while only women receive a union wage premium, only men benefit from the increased bargaining power of their union as indicated by workplace union density. In Norway, however, both men and women receive a union wage premium in male-dominated workplaces; but where the union is female dominated, women benefit more than men. The findings suggest British unions continue to adopt a paternalistic attitude to representing their membership, in contrast to their more progressive counterparts in Norway.

Unions and Non-Standard Work: Union Representation and Wage Premiums across Non-Standard Work Arrangements in Canada, 1997–2014

ILR Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 1009-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Gomez ◽  
Danielle Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Union Wage ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Standard Work ◽  
Union Wage Premium ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Wage Premiums ◽  
Union Representation

The authors examine the association between unionization and non-standard work in terms of coverage and wages. They use data from the master files of Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) between 1997–98 and 2013–14 to define and measure non-standard work and to provide a continuum of vulnerability across work arrangements. The estimated probability of being employed in some form of non-permanent job increased 2.9 percentage points from 1997 to 2014. During that same period, the estimated probability of being in a non-full-time, non-permanent job—another way of capturing non-standard work—increased 2.5 percentage points. Although estimated union wage premiums declined rather precipitously for all groups, the union wage advantage remained highest among non-standard workers. Further, the authors find the union wage premium is largest for the most vulnerable of non-standard workers. In terms of estimates that look across the earnings distribution, the union wage premium among non-standard workers is larger for workers higher up the earnings profile.

scholarly journals Countercyclical union wage premium? Evidence for the 1980s

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phanindra V. Wunnava ◽  
Albert Ade Okunade
Keyword(s):  
Union Wage ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Union Wage Premium

Changes in the Union Wage Premium by Industry

ILR Review ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernt Bratsberg ◽  
James F. Ragan
Keyword(s):  
Union Wage ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Union Wage Premium
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