Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236429 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14398
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Union, nonunion, and overall wages, plus regression-based union wage gap estimates, are provided annually, beginning in 1973 using the Current Population Surveys (CPS). The estimates are presented economy-wide by demographics and sectors (private/public, industries). Union wage gaps are higher in the private than in the public sector, higher for men than women, roughly similar for black and white men, and much higher for black than for white women. We estimate mean weekly earnings above CPS topcodes by gender and year, assuming a Pareto distribution in the right tail of the distribution. The database is online and will be updated annually.
Subjects: 
earnings
union wage gaps
CPS topcodes
JEL: 
J31
J51
C81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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