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The Relationship Between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact
Author(s) -
Sojourner Aaron,
Pacas José
Publication year - 2019
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.12224
Subject(s) - current population survey , economics , yield (engineering) , fiscal system , survey data collection , public economics , population , public finance , positive relationship , demographic economics , economic policy , demography , macroeconomics , psychology , sociology , social psychology , statistics , materials science , mathematics , metallurgy
This paper develops the first evidence on how individuals’ union membership status affects their net fiscal impact, the difference between taxes they pay and cost of public benefits they receive, enriching our understanding of how labor relations interacts with public economics. Current Population Survey data between 1994 and 2015 in pooled cross‐sections and individual first‐difference models yield evidence that union membership has a positive net fiscal impact through the worker‐level channels studied.