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The Impact of Union Wage Concessions on Union Premiums
Author(s) -
HAGGERTY MARK E.,
LEIGH DUANE E.
Publication year - 1993
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.1993.tb01021.x
Subject(s) - collective bargaining , wage , economics , attrition , labour economics , union density , sample (material) , wage bargaining , medicine , chemistry , dentistry , chromatography
Previous research showing that union wage premiums actually rose from the late 1970s to the mid‐1980s suggests that concession bargaining was more media hype than the result of a fundamental change in collective bargaining. Our study found that nonrandom attrition of workers from the union sector does lead to an upward bias in the measured growth of union premiums, but concession bargaining was not a sufficiently widespread occurrence to reduce the size of union premiums during the sample period.