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Trade Union Decline and Union Wage Effects in Australia
Author(s) -
WADDOUPS C. JEFFREY
Publication year - 2005
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.2005.00404.x
Subject(s) - union density , wage , nonunion , labour economics , economics , differential (mechanical device) , demographic economics , biology , anatomy , engineering , aerospace engineering
Union density in Australia fell precipitously in the 1990s. This study investigates how union wage effects may have changed as a result. The findings from 1993 data suggest that union/nonunion wage differentials were very small, especially among workers in high‐density industries. By 2001 the overall union wage effect had increased significantly; however, the union/nonunion wage differential was no longer correlated with union density at the industry level.