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Title
The Union Wage Premium, Voice, and Nonunion Workers' Attitudes: Before and After Japan's Lost Decade
Creator
Creator Name
Tsuru, Tsuyoshi Tsuru, Tsuyoshi
都留, 康 都留, 康
ツル, ツヨシ ツル, ツヨシ
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Editor
Contributor Name
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
JEL
J31
J32
J51
Abstract
Using microdata derived from the same questionnaire surveys conducted in 1992 and 2007, this paper examines changes in the economic effects of labor unions and attitudes toward unionization among nonunion workers in Japan. The main findings are as follows. First, while no union wage effects were observed in 1992, a wage premium for male workers was found in 2007. However, no change was observed for female workers. Second, with regard to union voice effects, no such effect was evident in 1992, but in 2007, a decline among men in the propensity for voluntary quitting (and, to some extent, job satisfaction) was found. In contrast, among women, no such union voice effects could be detected. Third, among male nonunion workers, support for unionization had increased between 1992 and 2007. On the other hand, the increase in support for unionization among female nonunion workers was scant when compared with that for their male counterparts. Furthermore, if there were other, nonunion forms of representing employees' voice at the workplace, this largely substituted for female support for unionization.
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2009-04
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
Discussion paper series. A ; No. a516
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Related Identifier
URI
  http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/
NCID
AA11476336
Number of Pages
22
Appears in Collections
Discussion paper series / Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/17102