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Source: British Journal of Industrial Relations
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1. Booth, Jonathan E.
Budd, John W.
Munday, Kristen M.
Never Say Never? Uncovering the Never-Unionized in the United States
British Journal of Industrial Relations 48,1 (March 2010): 26-52.
Also: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1552198
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Labor Market Demographics; Unions

This paper analyses individuals who never hold a unionized job and are never represented by a union ('never-unionized'). Using 21 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data to track individuals starting at age 15 or 16, we show that by the time workers are 40 or 41 years old, one-third of them are never-unionized, and a convex never-unionization trajectory suggests that most of them will remain never-unionized. An analysis of the demographic and labour market characteristics of the never-unionized further suggests two types of never-unionized workers -- those who lack opportunities for obtaining unionized jobs and those who lack the desire to obtain unionized jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bibliography Citation
Booth, Jonathan E., John W. Budd and Kristen M. Munday. "Never Say Never? Uncovering the Never-Unionized in the United States." British Journal of Industrial Relations 48,1 (March 2010): 26-52.
2. Devaraj, Srikant
Patel, Pankaj C.
State Bans on Pay Secrecy and Earnings: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
BJIR: An International Journal of Employment Relations published online (15 April 2022): DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12673.
Also: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12673
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Earnings; Geocoded Data; State-Level Data/Policy

Pay secrecy policies restrict employees from discussing pay and compensation with their co-workers. In addition to the federal law, 11 US states have enacted additional laws further reinforcing the ban on pay secrecy. Recent evidence shows that state pay secrecy bans lower wage gap for females and increase earnings of managers by a small amount. In a longitudinal cohort of 6046 individuals representing 35,387 individual-year observations from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY 1997), we do not find support for the benefits these state-level policies have on earnings in general, or for managerial employees in particular. Our findings are consistent for NLSY 1979 cohort. The effects did not vary by sex, age or managerial status in either cohort, and the differences by higher cognitive ability (those in the upper quartile or above the 90th percentile)--is significant in the NLSY 1997 cohort, but not in the NLSY 1979 cohort--were not conclusive. The findings indicate limited effects of state-level pay secrecy laws.
Bibliography Citation
Devaraj, Srikant and Pankaj C. Patel. "State Bans on Pay Secrecy and Earnings: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997." BJIR: An International Journal of Employment Relations published online (15 April 2022): DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12673.