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Union Membership and the Union Wage Gap in the UK
Author(s) -
Arabsheibani G. Reza,
Marin Alan
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00162
Subject(s) - wage , endogeneity , differential (mechanical device) , economics , labour economics , demographic economics , econometrics , engineering , aerospace engineering
We consider the choice of union membership in the UK and its effect on the union/non‐union wage differential allowing for the endogeneity of the union choice. We include identifying variables not previously used and find that correcting for selectivity is important and has a large impact on the estimated differential. Moreover, union choice is itself affected by the wage gap.