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But union members are different from nonmembers in unobserved ways, biasing your estimates. Y ou should ... make a selectivity bias correction ... simultaneously determine union status and economic outcomes ... develop an unobservables model ... USE LONGITUDINAL DATA. (Archetypical comment on virtually any study of the economic effects of umomsm, or suitably modified, on any other empirical subject.)
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Freeman, R.B. (1992). Longitudinal analyses of the effects of trade unions. In: Garonna, P., Mori, P., Tedeschi, P. (eds) Economic Models of Trade Unions. International Studies in Economic Modelling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2378-5_6
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