Wage loss following displacement: the role of union coverage.

From: Industrial and Labor Relations Review | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: Kuhn, Peter; Sweetman, Arthur | Copyright information

Using two Canadian data sets, the authors explore the role of union coverage in displaced workers' wage losses. While only 32% of the workers had unionized jobs prior to displacement, the wage loss suffered by these workers represented about 80% of the wages lost by all displaced workers in both samples. Losing union status was associated with large losses whether or not a worker switched industries after displacement. Extrapolating the results to the United States, the authors estimate that ...

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