Union Coverage Differentials. Some Estimates for Britain Using the New Earnings Survey Panel Dataset

Martyn J. Andrews, David N. F. Bell and Richard Upward

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 1998, vol. 60, issue 1, 47-7

Abstract: This paper reports individual‐level estimates of union/non‐union wage differentials, using coverage information from the New Earnings Survey Panel Dataset. There are no existing panel estimates for the United Kingdom. Of a number of findings, the more important are (i) fixed‐effects estimates are about one‐half the equivalent cross‐section estimates; (ii) the biggest differentials are for ‘company/district/local only’ agreements; and (iii) the differential is counter‐cyclical. Also the effect of the 1979/82 recession was probably dampened by anti‐union legislation, and the upward trend between 1975 and 1995 is due to the decentralization of collective pay bargaining.

Date: 1998
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