January 21, 2010
What Is The Average Difference, Worldwide, In Incomes For Organized And Unorganized Workers?
The ideal answer might be expressed as “Worldwide, organized workers earn, on average, x% more than workers who are not members of trade unions.”
A reference for differences by country would be great.
(By organized I mean belonging to a trade union.)
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Comments on What Is The Average Difference, Worldwide, In Incomes For Organized And Unorganized Workers?
I don’t know this figure off the top of my head… the US figure is 15%. You should check the International Labor Organization statistics and databases pages to see what they have… their site is: http://www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Sta…
Also, be sure you realize that different in average paid wages between unionized and nonunionized sectors is *not* telling you that unions “caused” that wage differential. Selection biases, general equilibrium effects, measurement errors (there is usually a discrepancy between data collected from workers and those collected from the employers), etc… may lead the actual union-cased wage increase to be lower (likely) or higher (less likely).
you shoud also report difference in bankrupsy rate between firms with unionized and non-unionized labor.
economy means tradeoff, you receive more – you risk losing your job.