Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The endogeneity of union status and the application of the hausman test

  • Articles
  • Published:
Journal of Labor Research Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Union endogeneity in relative wage equations has been long recognized. Recently, a new specification test, parsimonious in its computational requirements, has been advocated. This paper investigates the suitability of the test in a switching regression framework and critiques its most widely cited application.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Duncan, Gregory M., and Leigh, Duane E. “The Endogeneity of Union Status: An Empirical Test.”Journal of Labor Economics 3 (July 1985): 385–402.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hausman, J. A. “Specification Tests in Econometrics.”Econometrica 46 (November 1978): 1251–71.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Heckman, James J. “The Common Structure of Statistical Models of Truncation, Sample Selection and Limited Dependent Variables and a Simple Estimator for Such Models.”Annals of Economic and Social Measurement 5 (1976): 475–92.

    Google Scholar 

  • _____. “Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error.”Econometrica 46 (July 1979): 153–61.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hirsch, Barry T., and John T. Addison.The Economic Analysis of Unions — New Approaches and Evidence. London and Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1986.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lee, Lung-Fei. “Unionism and Wage Rates: A Simultaneous Equations Model with Qualitative and Limited Dependent Variables.”International Economic Review 19 (June 1978): 415–33.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • _____. “Some Approaches to the Correction of Selectivity Bias.”Review of Economic Studies 49 (July 1982): 355–72.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Oaxaca, Ronald L. and Michael R. Ransom. “Searching for the Effect on Unionism on the Wages of Union and Nonunion Workers.”Journal of Labor Research 9 (Spring 1988): 139–48.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Robinson, Christopher. “Union Endogeneity and Self-Selection.”Journal of Labor Economics 7 (January 1989): 106–12.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC

    John T. Addison

  2. Universidade do Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Portugal

Authors
  1. John T. Addison
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Pedro Portugal
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Addison, J.T., Portugal, P. The endogeneity of union status and the application of the hausman test. Journal of Labor Research 10, 437–441 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02685334

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02685334

Keywords

Search

Navigation