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Reconsidering Union Wage Effects: Surveying New Evidence on an Old Topic

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dc.creator Hirsch, Barry T.
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:08:11Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:08:11Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20040
dc.identifier ppn:365984337
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20040
dc.description I examine evidence on private sector union wage gaps in the U.S. The consensus opinion among labor economists of an average union premium of roughly 15 percent is called into question. Two forms of measurement error create a downward bias in standard wage gap estimates. Match bias results from Census earnings imputation procedures that do not include union status as a match criterion. Downward bias is roughly equal to the proportion of workers with imputed earnings, currently about 30 percent. Misclassification of union status causes additional attenuation in union gap measures. This bias has worsened as private sector density has declined, since an increasing proportion of workers designated as union are instead nonunion workers. Corrections for misclassification and match bias lead to estimated union gaps substantially higher than standard estimates, but with less of a downward trend since the mid-1980s. Private sector union gaps corrected for these biases are estimated from the CPS for 1973-2001. The uncorrected estimate for 2001 is .13 log points. Correction for match bias increases the gap to .18 log points; further correction for misclassification bias, based on an assumed 2 percent error rate, increases the gap to .24. Reexamination of the skill-upgrading hypothesis leads to the conclusion that higher union gap estimates are plausible. The conventional wisdom of a 15 percent union wage premium warrants reexamination.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 795
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J3
dc.subject C81
dc.subject J5
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject union wage differentials
dc.subject measurement error
dc.subject hot deck imputation
dc.subject match bias
dc.subject Lohnstruktur
dc.subject Gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgrad
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Statistischer Fehler
dc.subject Bias
dc.subject Vereinigte Staaten
dc.title Reconsidering Union Wage Effects: Surveying New Evidence on an Old Topic
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1973-2000


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