Table 4

Collective bargaining advantage by demographic group, 2011

Collective bargaining
coverage*		 Collective bargaining advantage**
Demographic group Dollars Percent
Total 13.0% $1.24 13.6%
Men 13.5 2.21 17.3
Women 12.5 0.67 9.1
White 13.3% $0.76 10.9%
Men 14.1 1.79 14.9
Women 12.5 0.18 7.0
Black 15.0% $2.60 17.3%
Men 15.8 3.05 20.3
Women 14.4 2.25 14.8
Hispanic 10.8% $3.44 23.1%
Men 10.8 4.77 29.3
Women 10.7 2.06 15.7
Asian 11.1% $1.54 14.7%
Men 9.9 1.53 16.6
Women 12.4 1.61 12.9
New immigrants (less than 10 years)
Men 5.4% $0.49 16.0%
Women 7.0 2.74 16.2
Other immigrants (more than 10 years)
Men 10.4% $2.13 16.7%
Women 12.7 0.57 8.8

* Union member or covered by a collective bargaining agreement

** Regression-adjusted collective bargaining advantage controlling for experience, education, region, industry, occupation, and marital status

Note: Observations with imputed wage data are omitted.

Table 4. Collective bargaining advantage by demographic group, 2011. “Collective bargaining coverage” is tabulated from Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata. “Collective bargaining advantage” values are the coefficients on collective bargaining coverage in a model of log hourly wages with controls for education, experience as a quartic, marital status, region, industry (12) and occupation (9), race and ethnicity, and gender where appropriate. For this analysis we only use observations that do not have imputed wages. This is because the imputation process does not take collective bargaining status into account and therefore biases the estimated advantage toward zero.

Source: Author's analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata

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