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Title: Racial Discrimination and Labor Unions: Evidence from the NLS Sample of Middle-Aged Men
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Leigh, Duane E. |
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Racial Discrimination and Labor Unions: Evidence from the NLS Sample of Middle-Aged Men Journal of Human Resources 13,4 (Fall 1978): 568-577. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145265 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Blue-Collar Jobs; Collective Bargaining; Discrimination, Racial/Ethnic; Unions; Wage Levels; Wages This study examines the relationship between unions and labor market discrimination. Despite a few differences in data bases, most of the findings reported in this paper support Ashenfelter's earlier analysis of the same study. With respect to industrial unions, collective bargaining coverage was found to produce a larger covered-noncovered wage differential for blacks than for whites. These unions appear to have an important wage leveling effect across skill categories of jobs and there is no evidence that blacks are disproportionately excluded from membership. Alternatively, craft unions appear to practice entry discrimination against blacks, and covered- noncovered earnings differentials earned by skilled and semiskilled whites are significantly higher than those earned by blacks. In addition, wage differentials received by unionized workers in construction are considerably larger than those received by craft unions outside the building trades. The overall impact of craft unions on black-white earnings ratio in 1969 was to depress the ratio slightly relative to what it would have been in the absence of unionism. |
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Leigh, Duane E. "Racial Discrimination and Labor Unions: Evidence from the NLS Sample of Middle-Aged Men." Journal of Human Resources 13,4 (Fall 1978): 568-577.
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