Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022
In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting. We allow the presence of … indicate an important role played by union wage spillovers in lowering wages over the 1980-2010 period. We find de …-unionisation can account for 38% of the decline in the mean hourly wage between 1980 and 2010, with two-thirds of that effect being due …