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The Relative Effects of Unionism on the Earnings Distributions of Women and Men
Author(s) -
FLAHERTY SEAN,
CANIGLIA ALAN
Publication year - 1992
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/j.1468-232x.1992.tb00316.x
Subject(s) - earnings , differential (mechanical device) , inequality , distribution (mathematics) , economics , demographic economics , union density , labour economics , wage , mathematics , mathematical analysis , accounting , engineering , aerospace engineering
This study examines the differential effects of union density on the degree of earnings inequality among women and among men. Our results suggest an equalizing impact of union density for all men and for both men and women who work year‐round and full time. Union density does not appear to equalize and may even contribute to a disequalization of the earnings distribution for all women.