The sources of the union wage gap: the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity
"Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal – a country with near-universal union coverage – we find evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match,...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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Munich
2018
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| author | Addison, John T. Portugal, Pedro Vilares, Hugo |
| author_facet | Addison, John T. Portugal, Pedro Vilares, Hugo |
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| description | "Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal – a country with near-universal union coverage – we find evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and job-title heterogeneity to the union wage gap. Of these the most important is the firm fixed effect, followed at some distance by union workers gaining from elevated job titles and/or more generous promotion policies. For its part, unobserved worker quality plays only a very weak role, while there is even less suggestion that improved match quality bolsters the union premium." |
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| geographic | Portugal |
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| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| is_hierarchy_title | The sources of the union wage gap: the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity |
| language | English |
| physical | 44 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2018 |
| publisher | Munich CESifo |
| spellingShingle | Addison, John T. Portugal, Pedro Vilares, Hugo wage differential trade unionization collective bargaining The sources of the union wage gap: the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity |
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| title | The sources of the union wage gap: the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity |
| topic | wage differential trade unionization collective bargaining |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19304586124911227689-The-sources-of-the-union-wage-.htm |