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Title: Unionization and Female Wage and Status Attainment
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Pfeffer, Jeffrey Ross, Jerry |
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Unionization and Female Wage and Status Attainment Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 20,2 (Spring 1981): 179-185. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1981.tb00202.x/abstract Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Job Training; Occupational Status; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Unions A growing body of evidence indicates that unionization has a leveling effect upon wages and occupational status. In a recent article in this journal, it was argued that union leveling occurred not only in the case of human capital variables, but also across virtually the entire set of individual characteristics. However, that study, as well as others in this tradition, focused on a sample of male workers and failed to examine the extent to which the results could be generalized to working women. This note undertakes such an extension. Using essentially the same variables and measures as before, we examine the effect of being in the union as contrasted with the nonunion sector on wages and occupational prestige attainment processes for a sample of women working full time. The results suggest a need for greater caution in drawing general conclusions about the impact of unionization on wage and status attainment based on evidence from male (particularly white male) samples. |
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Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Jerry Ross. "Unionization and Female Wage and Status Attainment." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 20,2 (Spring 1981): 179-185.
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