Abstracts
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0084.00113 |
| Date | 01 February 1999 |
| Published date | 01 February 1999 |
OXFORD BULLETIN
of
ECONOMICS and STATISTICS
VOLUME 61 February 1999 No. 1
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 61, 1 (1999)
0305-9049
ABSTRACTS
What Has Happened to the Union Wage Differential in Britain in the
1990s?
Andrew Hildreth
Using the BHPS for the years 1991 and 1995 this paper ®nds that the union
wage differential has declined for the private sector workforce. For males
the decline was notable but not signi®cant; for females the decline in the
union member wage differential was signi®cant. This decline mainly
affected the white collar, service sector of the economy for both males and
females. The decline was signi®cant for white collar females. Female union
members in blue collar jobs experienced a signi®cant decline in the wage
differential. In the `traditional' union areas of male, blue collar, production
sector jobs, the union wage differential maintained itself, or even increased.
In terms of altering wage inequality the decline in the female union member
wage differential chie¯y affected members in the upper part of the wage
distribution. Overall, the longitudinal results indicated that selection effects
for male workers as a group were not well de®ned. Female workers are
negatively selected into membership across the whole sample. Female
workers require union membership to maintain their pay.
When Economic Reform is Faster than Statistical Reform: Measuring
and Explaining Income Inequality in Rural China
Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen
Of®cial tabulations from household survey data suggest rising income
inequality in post-reform rural China, and this trend has been of public
concern. However, the structural changes in the Chinese rural economy had
not been properly re¯ected in the methods used for processing the raw
survey data. Using micro data for four provinces, we ®nd that two thirds of
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