A New Look at the Union Wage Premium during the Early Years of the AFL

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Debbie Mullin
Keyword(s):  
Union Wage ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Union Wage Premium ◽  
New Look

A New Look at the Union Wage Premium during the Early Years of the AFL

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Mullin
Keyword(s):  
Selection Bias ◽  
Union Wage ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wage Premium ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Common Procedure ◽  
Union Wage Premium ◽  
Self Selection

This study provides new evidence showing that the union wage premium in the late nineteenth century in the United States was lower than previously believed. Analysis of wage and productivity data from an 1890 survey of individual workers in Maine yields a 9.2% union-nonunion wage gap, once correction is made for self-selection bias (the disproportionate representation in unions of workers who, because of skills and other attributes, would probably gain above-average wages even in the absence of unions). The author argues that business cycle conditions and distinctive union dynamics can affect the results of analyses that employ the Heckman procedure, a common procedure designed to correct for self-selection bias.

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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