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Title: Do Union Members Receive Compensating Wage Differentials? Note
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Leigh, Duane E. |
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Do Union Members Receive Compensating Wage Differentials? Note American Economic Review 71,5 (December 1981): 1049-1055. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1803489 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Blue-Collar Jobs; Job Tenure; Mobility, Job; Unions; Wage Differentials Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Two conclusions may be drawn from the findings presented here. First, Duncan-Stafford's longitudinal evidence showing that higher union wages represent a compensating differential for undesirable working conditions does not generalize to NLS data for Young Men. Second, the NLS evidence appears to be more consistent with a collective voice view of unionism than it is with the interdependencies hypothesis advanced by Duncan and Stafford. In particular, results obtained for union joiners and leavers indicate that working conditions in the union sector are at least equal to those in nonunion jobs, as would be expected if, despite their higher wages, organized workers have a direct impact through their unions in altering disagreeable working conditions. |
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Leigh, Duane E. "Do Union Members Receive Compensating Wage Differentials? Note." American Economic Review 71,5 (December 1981): 1049-1055.
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