Gender-Based Wage and Promotion Discrimination in Israeli High-Technology Firms: Do Unions Make a Difference?

Little is known about the degree to which unions protect women against gender-based wage and promotion discrimination. Data were collected for scientists and professionals in two matched firms, one unionized, one not. Similar overall patterns of discrimination emerged, with gender having no less of...

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Published inAcademy of Management journal Vol. 38; no. 6; pp. 1744 - 1761
Main Authors Bamberger, Peter, Admati-Dvir, Michal, Harel, Gedaliahu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ada, Ohio, etc Academy of Management 01.12.1995
Subjects
Collective bargaining
Employees
Employers
Employment
Employment discrimination
Equal pay
Gender
Gender discrimination
Labor markets
Labor unionization
Labor unions
Men
Nonunion
Professionals
Research Notes
Salary
Union leadership
Wages
Wages & salaries
Women
Working women
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Summary:Little is known about the degree to which unions protect women against gender-based wage and promotion discrimination. Data were collected for scientists and professionals in two matched firms, one unionized, one not. Similar overall patterns of discrimination emerged, with gender having no less of an impact on earnings and promotion in the unionized firm than in the nonunion firm. However, our results suggest that women in the unionized firm might have been less exposed to the negative earnings-based consequences of promotion discrimination because hierarchical wage differentials were lower.
ISSN:0001-4273
1948-0989
DOI:10.5465/256853