Do Unions have a Different Effect on Male and Female Wages?

Pascale Petit (pascale.petit@univ-eiffel.fr)
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Pascale Petit: TEPP - Théorie et évaluation des politiques publiques - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: In this article, we investigate unions' effect on female wages and gender wage gap, in the light of theoretical and empirical economic literature. Unions may have an impact on the gender wage gap on the one hand, if union wage premiums depend on gender, everything else equal, and on the other hand, if male and female workers are differently allocated in activities or industries with large union wage premiums. Empirical studies find that union wage premiums are higher for women. However, unions' wage effect is higher in activities that are predominantly male.

Date: 2007
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Published in Revue Française d'Economie, 2007

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