The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact

Aaron Sojourner and José Pacas ()
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José Pacas: University of Minnesota

No 11310, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper develops the first evidence on how individuals' union membership status affects their net fiscal impact, the difference between taxes they pay and cost of public benefits they receive, enriching our understanding of how labor relations interacts with public economics. Current Population Survey data between 1994 and 2015 in pooled cross-sections and individual first-difference models yield evidence that union membership has a positive net fiscal impact through the worker-level channels studied.

Keywords: collective bargaining; public benefits; industrial relations; labor relations; public economic; labor union; taxes; net fiscal impact; social insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H24 J31 J5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2018-01
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Published - published in: Industrial Relations , 2019, 58 (1), 86-107

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