Présence syndicale dans les firmes: quel impact sur les inégalités salariales entre les hommes et les femmes ?

Marie Leclair () and Pascale Petit ()
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Marie Leclair: INSEE - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)
Pascale Petit: ERUDITE - Equipe de Recherche sur l’Utilisation des Données Individuelles en lien avec la Théorie Economique - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Université Gustave Eiffel, TEPP - Théorie et évaluation des politiques publiques - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Abstract: The Roudy Law in 1983 tried to promote wage equality between men and women by reinforcing union power in this field. A reexamination of CMOSS data from 1992 allows measuring what was its impact after nearly ten years of implementation. The methodology consists in computing how the presence of union representatives at the workplace affects wage gaps between men and women of similar characteristics. Taking into account selection bias and unobserved individual and establishment heterogeneity, our results show a positive impact of unions on wages for both men and women working full time in the industrial sector. This union premium is all the more important as the worker earns a low wage. Nevertheless, we find no significant impact of unions on the unexplained gender wage gap: unions tend to increase both men's and women's wages in similar proportions.

Keywords: trade union; gender wage gap; gender discrimination; linked employer-employee French data; syndicat; discrimination; inégalité salariale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-12
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