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Title: Unionism, Labor Turnover, and Wages of Young Men
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Farber, Henry S. |
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Unionism, Labor Turnover, and Wages of Young Men Research in Labor Economics 3 (1980): 33-53 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: JAI Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Job Turnover; Layoffs; Quits; Skilled Workers; Unions; Wages, Young Men; Work History The empirical work utilized a sample from the NLS Young Men's data set. The major hypotheses were supported by the results. First, and consistent with the rationing hypothesis, it was found that more skilled workers were more likely to work on union jobs. Second, it was found that those workers less likely to quit were more likely to be union members. As a result, the observed negative correlation between unionization and quits among young workers is an overstatement (in absolute terms) of the direct impact of unionization on quits. In conclusion, two general comments are in order. First, the differences between the results on quits and the results on total permanent job transitions are evidence that quits and involuntary terminations must be modeled as distinct phenomena. Second, the obvious differences between the results of this study relating to young workers and the results of studies that deal with a more varied group of workers is evidence that unions have differing impacts on different groups of workers. Studies that deal with a wide variety of workers and rely on a single union dummy variable to measure the average impact of unionization may be misleading when the results are applied to particular groups. |
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Farber, Henry S. "Unionism, Labor Turnover, and Wages of Young Men." Research in Labor Economics 3 (1980): 33-53.
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