Union Wage Effects: Does Membership Matter?

Erling Barth, Oddbjørn Raaum and Robin Naylor ()

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Abstract: We exploit rare information on the union status of both individual employees and of their workplaces to address two related issues. First, we find a positive effect of workplace trade union density on the level of the individual's pay. Second, we find that the individual's unions membership status loses its significance when we control for establishment-level density. The union wage effect is therefore a pure public good, with individual membership conveying a positive wage externality.

Keywords: LABOUR UNIONS; WAGES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J3 J5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 1998
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Journal Article: Union Wage Effects: Does Membership Matter? (2000)
Working Paper: UNION WAGES EFFECTS: DOES MEMBERSHIP MATTER? (1998)
Working Paper: Union Wage Effects; Does Membership Matter? (1995)
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