Vulnerable Seniors: Unions, Tenure, and Wages following Permanent Job Loss
研究发现，从工会岗位失业的工人，其再就业工资随原岗位工龄增加而下降，这与非工会工人相反，且无法用人力资本积累等标准理论解释。
In contrast to nonunion workers, reemployment wages of workers displaced from unionized jobs decline with tenure on the lost job. This finding cannot easily be explained by firm- or industry-specific human capital accumulation, deferred-pay policies, standard matching models, or a correlation between tenure and reentry rates into unionized jobs. Possible explanations include negative selection of senior union workers and a negative causal effect of unionism on workers' alternative skills. Despite a much flatter predisplacement tenure-wage profile, displaced union workers' wage losses increase with tenure at a rate comparable to or higher than those of nonunion workers. Copyright 1999 by University of Chicago Press.