Journal Article
Dissatisfied union workers: sorting revisited
Authors
Publication date
04 Aug 2014
Summary
A substantial literature argues that the reported job dissatisfaction of
union members is spurious. It reflects either the sorting of
dissatisfied workers into union membership or the sorting of union
recognition into worse jobs. We contribute by presenting the first panel
data estimates that hold constant first worker fixed effects and then
worker in job fixed effects. The estimates demonstrate that covered
union members typically report greater dissatisfaction even when
accounting for sorting in both dimensions. At the same time,
cross-sectional evidence of less satisfied covered non-members and
uncovered members vanishes when accounting for sorting.
Published in
British Journal of Industrial Relations
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12090
ISSN
16
Subjects
Sociology Of Labour and Labour Economics
Links
http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1595722~S5
Notes
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