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工会对工资分布的影响：来自高等教育的证据
The Impact of Unions on the Wage Distribution: Evidence from Higher Education
摘要
We estimate the impact of unionization on the wage distribution of Canadian university faculty using longitudinal administrative data on salaries and exploiting the staggered rollout of unionization across institutions. We find that unionization compressed salaries: Wages at the bottom of the unconditional distribution increased by roughly 10 percent, while wages at the top were unaffected. Our evidence suggests that these distributional impacts were driven by the introduction of contractual salary floors. We also estimate little impact of unionization on faculty employment. Instead, our results suggest that the increase in universities’ wage bills was financed by an increase in student enrollment. (JEL I23, J31, J45, J51)
中文摘要
本文利用加拿大高校教职员工薪资的纵向行政数据，并借助各院校工会化进程的阶段性推进，评估了工会化对薪资分布的影响。研究发现，工会化压缩了薪资差距：无条件薪资分布底层的工资水平上升约10%，而顶层的工资未受影响。证据表明，这种分布效应源于合同薪资下限的引入。此外，工会化对教职员工就业的影响微乎其微。相反，研究结果显示，大学薪资支出的增长是通过扩大学生招生规模来弥补的。（JEL分类号：I23, J31, J45, J51）