Gender-Based Wage and Promotion Discrimination in Israeli High-Technology Firms: Do Unions Make a Difference?

Peter Bamberger; Michal Admati-Dvir; Gedaliahu Harel

Gender-Based Wage and Promotion Discrimination in Israeli High-Technology Firms: Do Unions Make a Difference?

Peter Bamberger, Michal Admati-Dvir, Gedaliahu Harel

Coller School of Management

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Abstract

Little is known about the degree to which unions protect women against gender-based wage and promotion discrimination. Data were collected for scientists and professionals in two matched firms, one unionized, one not. Similar overall patterns of discrimination emerged, with gender having no less of an impact on earnings and promotion in the unionized firm than in the nonunion firm. However, our results suggest that women in the unionized firm might have been less exposed to the negative earnings-based consequences of promotion discrimination because hierarchical wage differentials were lower. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1744-1761
Number of pages	18
Journal	Academy of Management Journal
Volume	38
Issue number	6
State	Published - 1995

Keywords

Sex discrimination in employment
Employment discrimination
Labor unions
High technology industries personnel
Wage differentials
Women's employment
Women employees
Women
Sex discrimination
Israel

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