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Union Relative Wage Effects: New Evidence and a Survey of their Implications for Wage Inflation

In: Econometric Contributions to Public Policy

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  • Orley Ashenfelter

    (Princeton University)

Abstract

The measurement of any excess of the wage rate of union workers over nonunion workers no longer stimulates much controversy in the US. The measure-ment methods have been standardised and there is now a broad consensus on how these union wage effects have moved over time and even how they differ as between black and white or male and female workers.2 This end to con-troversy has undoubtedly resulted for a variety of reasons: for one thing, as George Johnson [6] has remarked, the mere existence of trade unions is no longer a serious question of public policy. In addition, the quality of the measurement devices and of the microeconomic data available to researchers has made it possible to eliminate some of the ambiguity of measurement present in the earliest studies.3

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  • Orley Ashenfelter, 1978. "Union Relative Wage Effects: New Evidence and a Survey of their Implications for Wage Inflation," International Economic Association Series, in: Richard Stone & William Peterson (ed.), Econometric Contributions to Public Policy, chapter 2, pages 31-63, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-16003-7_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16003-7_3
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    1. Dex S., 1992. "Costs of discriminating against migrant workers : an international review," ILO Working Papers 992869403402676, International Labour Organization.
    2. Manudeep Bhuller & Karl Ove Moene & Magne Mogstad & Ola L. Vestad, 2022. "Facts and Fantasies about Wage Setting and Collective Bargaining," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 36(4), pages 29-52, Fall.
    3. Yan, Linnan & Tu, Menger & Chagas, André L.S. & Tai, Lufeng, 2022. "The impact of high-speed railway on labor spatial misallocation—Based on spatial difference-in-differences analysis," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 82-97.
    4. Kochan, Thomas A. & Helfman, David E., 1981. "The effects of collective bargaining on economic and behavioral job outcomes," Working papers 1181-81., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
    5. repec:ilo:ilowps:286940 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. John H. Pencavel & Catherine E. Hartsog, 1984. "A Reconsideration of the Effects of Unionism on Relative Wages and Employment in the United States, 1920-80," NBER Working Papers 1316, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Donges, Juergen B. & Spinanger, Dean, 1983. "Interventions in labour markets: An overview," Kiel Working Papers 175, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    8. repec:eee:labchp:v:2:y:1986:i:c:p:1139-1181 is not listed on IDEAS
    9. Minsik Choi, 2001. "Threat Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Labor Union Wage Premium," Working Papers wp27, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
    10. Richard B. Freeman & James L. Medoff, 1981. "The Impact of Collective Bargaining: Illusion or Reality?," NBER Working Papers 0735, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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    Keywords

    Trade Union; Wage Differential; Union Wage; Wage Effect; Union Sector;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
    • L14 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation

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