The union membership wage premium for employees covered by collective bargaining agreements

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Budd, JW; Na, IG
• 署名单位: University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209977
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 783-807
• 关键词: to-work laws; limited dependent variables; free-rider problem; trade-union; endogeneity; EQUATIONS; differentials; nonmembers; selection; estimator

摘要

Using Current Population Survey data for 1983-93, this article analyzes whether there is a union membership wage premium among full-time, private sector employees covered by union contracts. Ordinary least squares estimates of the membership wage premium are 12%-14%, and allowing membership to be endogenous yields larger estimates. Differences in job tenure, unobservable characteristics, and measurement error cannot fully explain the estimated premium. Significant differences in this premium, as well as in membership rates conditional upon coverage, across various demographic sub-groups are also documented. In general, free riders do not appear to be free riding.