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Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 Baseline results: Union wage premium in nation, public and private sector based on the OLS method

From: Union membership and the wage gap between the public and private sectors: evidence from China

 

(a) Nation

(b) Public

(c) Private

Union

0.124***

0.093***

0.136**

 

(6.68)

(4.10)

(4.14)

Public

0.030*

  
 

(1.89)

  

Control variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

No. of observations

14,084

5496

8588

R-squared

0.261

0.224

0.207

  1. The t-values are in parentheses. The controlled variables include demographic factors (years of schooling, year of work experience, health status, sex, ethnicity, urban hukou, CPC member, married), work-related factors (occupation, industry sector, workplace ownership sector), province-level region and survey year (2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018) dummies, which are not presented in the table. These results are available upon request. Source: Calculated using data from the CFPS of 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018.
  2. ***p < 0.01,
  3. **p < 0.05,
  4. *p < 0.1
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