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The study aims to analyze how unions affect wage structures across different skill levels among workers.

The Effect of Unions on the Structure of Wages: A Longitudinal Analysis

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Longitudinal analysis reveals unions raise wages more for lower-skilled workers, indicating selection bias.

The study aims to analyze how unions affect wage structures across different skill levels among workers.
Utilized a longitudinal panel data set from the U.S. Current Population Survey.
Estimated models separately for five distinct skill groups.
Accounted for misclassification errors in reported union status and unobserved productivity correlations.
Unions increase wages more for workers with lower observed skills.
Union workers are positively selected from lower-skilled groups and negatively from higher-skilled ones.

David Card (1996) studied this question.

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