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Source: Community and Organization Research Institute, UC, Santa Barbara
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Blau, Francine D.
Kahn, Lawrence M.
Determinants and Consequences of Obtaining Unionized Employment
Mimeo, Santa Barbara CA: Community and Organization Research Institute, University of California, 1979
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Community and Organization Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
Keyword(s): Earnings; Employment; Job Search; Mobility, Job; Unemployment; Unions

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The report examines the union impact on job search. Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Men and Young Women, the study finds that other things equal, the probability that a job changer obtains a union rather than a nonunion job is negatively associated with the number of weeks of unemployed search between jobs. This finding is consistent with a systematic search model. Searchers have prior information about the firms being sampled. To maximize expected wealth, job seekers contact high wage (union) firms before low wage (nonunion) firms. An inverse relationship between search time and unionism results. This finding further implies that existing estimates of union-nonunion wage differentials underestimate the total union effect when search time is taken into account. The difference in expected wage offers for union and nonunion jobs confronting searchers is found to be 24.9%.
Bibliography Citation
Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn. "Determinants and Consequences of Obtaining Unionized Employment." Mimeo, Santa Barbara CA: Community and Organization Research Institute, University of California, 1979.
2. Borjas, George J.
Race, Labor Turnover, and Male Earnings
Mimeo, Community and Organization Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1979
Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men
Publisher: Community and Organization Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
Keyword(s): Earnings; Layoffs; Life Cycle Research; Mobility; Mobility, Job; Quits; Racial Differences; Wage Gap; Work History

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The relationship between racial differences in labor turnover and the racial wage differential is analyzed. Since job mobility has important effects on the earnings distribution, any racial differences in life cycle work histories can be expected to have strong effects on the racial wage gap. Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young and Older Men, it is found that racial differences in quit and layoff probabilities and in the pecuniary gains to mobility are responsible for a significant portion of the racial wage differential.
Bibliography Citation
Borjas, George J. "Race, Labor Turnover, and Male Earnings." Mimeo, Community and Organization Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1979.