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Union Relative Wage Effects: New Evidence and a Survey of their Implications for Wage Inflation

Orley Ashenfelter

Chapter 2 in Econometric Contributions to Public Policy, 1978, pp 31-63 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The measurement of any excess of the wage rate of union workers over nonunion workers no longer stimulates much controversy in the US. The measure-ment methods have been standardised and there is now a broad consensus on how these union wage effects have moved over time and even how they differ as between black and white or male and female workers.2 This end to con-troversy has undoubtedly resulted for a variety of reasons: for one thing, as George Johnson [6] has remarked, the mere existence of trade unions is no longer a serious question of public policy. In addition, the quality of the measurement devices and of the microeconomic data available to researchers has made it possible to eliminate some of the ambiguity of measurement present in the earliest studies.3

Keywords: Trade Union; Wage Differential; Union Wage; Wage Effect; Union Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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