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Union Wage Effects in Australia: Is There Variation along the Distribution? *
Author(s) -
CAI LIXIN,
LIU AMY Y.C.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2008.00513.x
Subject(s) - wage , quantile regression , quantile , economics , distribution (mathematics) , labour economics , demographic economics , econometrics , mathematics , mathematical analysis
This study uses quantile regression models to examine whether the union wage effect varies across the conditional wage distribution. Although for men it is evident that the union wage effect decreases when moving up the conditional wage distribution, the effect for women is relatively stable except at the extremities of the distribution. Overall, unions are found to have a larger effect on men than on women wages. The decomposition results show that for men, the union wage effect explains a substantial proportion of the observed wage gap between union and non‐union workers; this is not the case for women.