Why Do Union Jobs Pay More? New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

We are grateful to David Card, Hank Farber, Lorenzo Lagos, Suresh Naidu, and seminar participants at the NBER Summer Institute 2024, ASSA Meetings 2025, IAB, CLEF, SCSE, University of Chicago (Harris), Deakin University, University of Melbourne, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University and Yale University, for helpful suggestions. We also thank the Social Sciences and Humanity Research Council of Canada for financial support. This research was conducted at the University of British Columbia, a part of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN). This service is provided through the support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Statistics Canada, as well as the support of UBC. All views expressed in this work are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Statistics Canada or the Government of Canada.