Welcome to the GEO Website » CEPR http://www.uigeo.org Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:40:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Report on Unionization in the US http://www.uigeo.org/2010/02/08/cepr-releases-report-on-unionization-in-the-us/ http://www.uigeo.org/2010/02/08/cepr-releases-report-on-unionization-in-the-us/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:24:45 +0000 richpotter http://www.uigeo.org/?p=750

Unionization is strongly associated with increases in overall compensation, measured here by hourly wages and health and pension benefit coverage. In the typical state, unionization is associated with about a 15 percent increase in hourly wages (roughly $2.50 per hour), a 19-percentage-point increase in the likelihood of having employer-provided health insurance, and a 24-percentage-point increase in the likelihood of having employer-sponsored retirement plans.

To download the complete report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), click here.

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