Union Wage Effects in Australia: Is There Variation along the Distribution?*

Cai, Lixin; Liu, Amy Y.C.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2008.00513.x

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“…In the framework of insider/outsiders models, unions can even reinforce the existence of dual segments in the labour market (incumbent/new‐hire or temporary/permanent workers), in which the gender distribution is not random (Booth et al ., ). Additionally, the empirical literature shows that the union wage effect explains a substantial proportion of the observed wage gap between union and non‐union workers for men but not for women (Cai and Liu, ). In part, this may be due to the different goals pursued by men and women in bargaining.…”

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Labour market institutions, crisis and gender earnings gap in Eastern Europe

Perugini

Selezneva

2015

Econ Transit

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We study gender pay inequality in ten Central and Eastern EU countries before (2007) and during the economic crisis (2009) using quantile regression methods. The analysis reveals remarkable cross‐country diversity in levels and patterns of the gender gap along the earnings distribution; for the majority of the countries the crisis is associated with declining male/female disparities. We address the role played by labour market institutions in shaping the observed gender pay gap levels and patterns. Labour market deregulation increases gender inequality at the middle and at the top of the pay distribution, but reduces disparities at the bottom. Higher union density and wage coordination reduce the pay gap, with stronger equalizing effects on better‐paid jobs. The crisis seems to weaken the already poor role of institutions in the low‐pay sector.

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Labour market institutions, crisis and gender earnings gap in Eastern Europe

Perugini

Selezneva

2015

Econ Transit

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“…In the absence of a closed shop, this wage gap will provide an incentive to become a trade union member if it also exists for union members, irrespective of the coverage status. (Cai and Liu 2008). This suggests that union members actually obtain compensation for their membership fee.…”

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Trade union membership and dismissals

Goerke

Pannenberg

2011

Labour Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. AbstractIn Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to freeride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members are less likely to lose their jobs than non-members. In particular, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we can show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated average partial effect of union membership.JEL Classification: C 23, H 41, J 51, J 63

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“…; Mertens and McGinnity ). Second, given the union wage premium is larger for low‐paid than high‐paid workers (Cai and Liu ; Schmitt ), it follows that the role of unions in widening the wage gap between permanent and temporary workers is also larger among low‐paid workers (Bosio ; Comi and Grasseni ). Bargaining for compensating wage differentials also presupposes that workers can choose between two jobs, instead of between a temporary job and unemployment (Mertens et al.…”

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The Structure of the Wage Gap for Temporary Workers: Evidence from Australian Panel Data

Laß

Wooden

2019

Brit J Industrial Rel

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This study uses panel data for Australia to estimate the wage differential between workers in temporary jobs and workers in permanent jobs. It is the first study to use unconditional quantile regression methods in combination with fixed effects to examine how this gap varies over the entire wage distribution. While the wages of fixed-term contract workers are found to be similar to those of permanent workers, low-paid casual workers experience a wage penalty and high-paid casual workers a wage premium compared to their permanent counterparts. Temporary agency workers also usually receive a wage premium, which is particularly large for the most well paid.

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Union Wage Effects in Australia: Is There Variation along the Distribution?*

Cited by 16 publications

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Labour market institutions, crisis and gender earnings gap in Eastern Europe

Labour market institutions, crisis and gender earnings gap in Eastern Europe

Trade union membership and dismissals

The Structure of the Wage Gap for Temporary Workers: Evidence from Australian Panel Data

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