UNIONS AND NON-STANDARD WORK UNION REPRESENTATION AND WAGE PREMIUMS ACROSS NON-STANDARD WORK ARRANGEMENTS IN CANADA, 1997–2014

The authors examine the association between unionization and non-standard work in terms of coverage and wages. They use data from the master files of Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) between 1997–98 and 2013–14 to define and measure non-standard work and to provide a continuum of vulnerability acr...

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Published inIndustrial & labor relations review Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 1009 - 1035
Main Authors GOMEZ, RAFAEL, LAMB, DANIELLE
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications, Inc 01.08.2019
SAGE Publications
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Earnings
Economic models
Labor force
Labor relations
Labor unions
Premiums
Probability
Unionization
Vulnerability
Wages
Wages & salaries
Winner of the 2018 Best Paper Competition LERA/ILR Review Special Series in Employment Relations
Work
Workers
Canada
non-standard work
wages
unions
precarious work
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Summary:The authors examine the association between unionization and non-standard work in terms of coverage and wages. They use data from the master files of Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) between 1997–98 and 2013–14 to define and measure non-standard work and to provide a continuum of vulnerability across work arrangements. The estimated probability of being employed in some form of non-permanent job increased 2.9 percentage points from 1997 to 2014. During that same period, the estimated probability of being in a non-full-time, non-permanent job—another way of capturing non-standard work—increased 2.5 percentage points. Although estimated union wage premiums declined rather precipitously for all groups, the union wage advantage remained highest among non-standard workers. Further, the authors find the union wage premium is largest for the most vulnerable of non-standard workers. In terms of estimates that look across the earnings distribution, the union wage premium among non-standard workers is larger for workers higher up the earnings profile.
ISSN:0019-7939
2162-271X
DOI:10.1177/0019793919852926