Union Wages and Union Decline: Evidence from the Construction Industry (2006)
Two well-documented empirical findings are that unionized employees typically receive substantially higher compensation than their non-union counterparts and that union representation in the United...
How New Is the "New Employment Contract"? (2003)
Levine, David I, Belman, Dale, Charness, Gary, Groshen, Erica L, O'Shaughnessy, K C
SHEEPSKIN EFFECTS BY COHORT: IMPLICATIONS OF JOB MATCHING IN A SIGNALING MODEL (1997)
BELMAN, DALE, HEYWOOD, JOHN S.
In the presence of job matching, the returns to education signals are shown to decline in value as additional work experience allows more direct observation of productivity. This is tested by...
There is an emerging debate over whether truck drivers are 'underpaid' given their human capital and working conditions. Using data from the 2000 Current Population Survey, the pay differentials...
The rise in inequality between the 1970s and the 1990s and the persistent gap in pay between large and small employers are two of the most robust findings in the study of labor markets. Mainstream...
Market Structure and Worker Quality.
It is frequently asserted, although never directly tested, that firms in more monopolistic industries hire better-qualified workers. This paper presents two new results. First, worker quality...
The Concentration-Earnings Hypothesis: Reconciling Individual and Industry Data in U.S. Studies.
The authors provide at least a partial reconciliation of industry and individual level examinations of the influence of concentration on wages. They find that neither aggregation per se nor use of...
Wage effects of increased union coverage: Methodological considerations and new evidence.
Although many studies show a positive relationship between extent of unionization and union members' wages, some analysts suggest that this relationship could reflect a concentration of labor...
Public sector earnings and the extent of unionization
Dale Belman, John S. Heywood, John Lund
Many studies have examined the influence of union density (union members as a percentage of all workers) on earnings in the private sector, but few such studies have looked at the public sector....
Wage effects of increased union coverage: Methodological considerations and new evidence.
Although many studies show a positive relationship between extent of unionization and union members' wages, some analysts suggest that this relationship could reflect a concentration of labor...
Public sector earnings and the extent of unionization
Dale Belman, John S. Heywood, John Lund
Many studies have examined the influence of union density (union members as a percentage of all workers) on earnings in the private sector, but few such studies have looked at the public sector....
Union wages and union decline: Evidence from the construction industry
Two well-documented empirical findings are that unionized employees typically receive substantially higher compensation than their non-union counterparts and that union representation in the United...
Union wages and union decline: Evidence from the construction industry
Two well-documented empirical findings are that unionized employees typically receive substantially higher compensation than their non-union counterparts and that union representation in the United...
Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education: An Examination on Women and Minorities.
Recent confirmation of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for prime age white males has been taken as evidence of screening or signaling in the labor market. The authors report evidence of...
Union Membership, Union Organization and the Dispersion of Wages.
A variance components model explains wage dispersion with a specific version of generalized least squares. The estimation preserves individual data while examining the influence of union penetration...
Sheepskin Effects by Cohort: Implications of Job Matching in a Signaling Model.
In the presence of job matching, the returns to education signals are shown to decline in value as additional work experience allows more direct observation of productivity. This is tested by...
Out-of-sample employment forecasts for 33 U.S. industries which are likely to be sensitive to the federal minimum wage are, more often than not, more accurate when information about the minimum wage...