Unionization and the Pattern of Nonunion Wages: Evidence for the UK
首次考察英国工会化对非工会工资分布的影响，检验工会威胁假说（即工会化威胁促使非工会企业提高低薪工人工资），发现英国数据不支持该假说，并指出美国支持性证据可能源于缺乏合适的雇主-雇员关联数据。
This paper presents the first examination of the effect of unionisation on the distribution of nonunion wages in the UK. We test a hypothesis that has received considerable attention in the US: that the threat of unionisation leads nonunion firms to increase the earnings of their lowest paid workers, so compressing their internal wage distribution. In aggregate we find little support for this hypothesis in the UK and suggest that the supportive evidence from the US may be a function of the absence of suitable linked employer‐employee data.