We use longitudinal data from an Irish household survey to measure the union wage premium. A subsample in which the worker’s payslip was seen by the interviewer is unlikely to have measurement error for the union variable. The results support the finding that measurement error leads to a large...

We examine the effects of hurricane shocks on key migration variables in US coastal counties. Results show that hurricane strikes increase the outward migration rate and that these migrants were somewhat wealthier, but that there was no impact on inward migration.