Trucking Deregulation and Labor Earnings: Is the Union Premium a Compensating Differential?
利用1983-90年当期人口调查数据，研究卡车运输业放松管制后工会司机与非工会司机的工资差异，发现工会溢价下降，部分差异源于司机质量的补偿性差异。
This article examines wage determination among union and nonunion truck drivers using the ninety-six monthly Current Population Surveys for 1983-90. Union density in the previously regulated for-hire sector of the trucking industry fell from about 60 percent during the regulatory period of the 1970s to about 25 percent by 1990. Union log wage premiums fell from 0.40 in the 1970s to 0.30 or below in the 1980s. Longitudinal estimates from multiple panels for 1983-84 through 1989-90 suggest far smaller union premiums, supporting the thesis that part of the wage differential following deregulation is a compensating premium for driver quality. Copyright 1993 by University of Chicago Press.