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Are Union Wage Differentials in the United States Falling?
Author(s) -
BLACKBURN MCKINLEY L.
Publication year - 2008
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.2008.00526.x
Subject(s) - falling (accident) , differential (mechanical device) , wage , estimation , economics , demographic economics , labour economics , psychology , engineering , management , psychiatry , aerospace engineering
This paper addresses several estimation and specification issues in estimating union wage differentials in the United States over the last two decades. Estimates provide strong evidence of a decline in the differential for women. For men, the differential appears to have declined for a person with overall average characteristics, but not for a male with characteristics of the average unionized male.