Union Membership does not pay

Mathieu Bunel and Gilles Raveaud
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Gilles Raveaud: UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis

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Abstract: We used a French employer-employee representative survey to estimate, within private firms covered by union contracts, the union member wage premium. Our estimates are based on several methods: ordinary least squares with averaged individual characteristics at the workplace level, the propensity score and separated equations. We found no wage penalty for non union members. There exists a union membership wage premium for blue collar and office workers, which is of a limited amount (around 3%). Thus, for most workers in France, there is no important financial gain associated with union membership.

Keywords: Union wage premium; union membership; employer-employee data; propensity score method; separated equations method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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