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Union Wage Gap in the U.S. Construction Sector: 1983–2007
Author(s) -
Bilginsoy Cihan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/irel.12029
Subject(s) - workforce , wage , economics , labour economics , resizing , offset (computer science) , demographic economics , european union , international economics , economic growth , computer science , programming language
Wage gap decomposition shows that declining union power was the principal force behind the shrinking union wage premium in the U.S. construction industry between the 1980s and the 2000s. This decline was largely offset by changes in returns to workforce attributes and workforce compositions. Without these moderating effects, the decline in the wage gap would have been twice as large (in log points). The patterns were similar in the basic and mechanical trades, but magnitudes of change were larger in the latter.