Vulnerable seniors: Unions, tenure, and wages following permanent job loss

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kuhn, P; Sweetman, A
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; McMaster University; University of Victoria
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209935
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 671-693
• 关键词: unemployment; workers; MODEL; rise

摘要

In contrast to nonunion workers, reemployment wages of workers displaced from unionized jobs decline with tenure on the lost job. This finding cannot easily be explained by firm- or industry-specific human capital accumulation, deferred-pay policies, standard matching models, or a correlation between tenure and reentry rates into unionized jobs. Possible explanations include negative selection of senior union workers and a negative causal effect of unionism on workers' alternative skills. Despite a much flatter predisplacement tenure-wage profile, displaced union workers' wage losses increase with tenure at a rate comparable to or higher than those of nonunion workers.