Lever, Marcel H C; Marquering, Wessel A - In: Empirical Economics 21 (1996) 4, pp. 483-99
This paper investigates the impact of union coverage on sectoral wages in the Netherlands. The semi-elasticity of the wage rate with respect to union coverage appears to be around 0.05; it is higher in the industrial than in the other sectors. The impact of union coverage on wages appears to be...