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Neelakantan, Pattabiraman |
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Returns to Schooling: Union - Nonunion Differential Presented: Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Economic Association Meeting, May 1993 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: Pennsylvania Economic Association Keyword(s): Educational Returns; Schooling; Unions; Wage Differentials; Wage Dynamics Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Past empirical literature on labor unions has concluded that union workers receive a wage premium of around 15-20 percent which is distributed unevenly among union workers. Workers may differ in learning abilities. Hence, it is reasonable to assume that workers with higher learning abilities receive larger returns to their education, and vice versa. If returns to education is lower in the union sector relative to the nonunion sector, then workers with higher learning abilities may eventually self-select into nonunion sector, and vice versa. This study tests the above prediction by comparing the returns to education of one time movers who switch from nonunion to union sector (union joiners) with those who switch from union to nonunion sector (union leavers). If the above self-selection argument is valid then union joiners should have lower returns to education as a group relative to union leavers. |
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Neelakantan, Pattabiraman. "Returns to Schooling: Union - Nonunion Differential." Presented: Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Economic Association Meeting, May 1993. |