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Graham, Bryan S. Hahn, Jinyong Poirier, Alexandre Powell, James L. |
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Quantile Regression with Panel Data NBER Working Paper No. 21034, National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2013. Also: http://nber.org/papers/w21034 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): Collective Bargaining; Data Quality/Consistency; Earnings; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Statistical Analysis; Unions We apply our methods to study the effects of collective bargaining coverage on earnings using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). Consistent with prior work (e.g., Chamberlain, 1982; Vella and Verbeek, 1998), we find that using panel data to control for unobserved worker heterogeneity results in sharply lower estimates of union wage premia. We estimate a median union wage premium of about 9 percent, but with, in a more novel finding, substantial heterogeneity across workers. The 0.1 quantile of union effects is insignificantly different from zero, whereas the 0.9 quantile effect is of over 30 percent. Our empirical analysis further suggests that, on net, unions have an equalizing effect on the distribution of wages. |
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Graham, Bryan S., Jinyong Hahn, Alexandre Poirier and James L. Powell. "Quantile Regression with Panel Data." NBER Working Paper No. 21034, National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2013. |