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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...

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Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Bryson, Alex - 2006

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...

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Unionization and Wage Inequality : A Comparative Study of the U.S, the U.K., and Canada

Card, David - 2003

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the link between unionization and wage inequality in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. Our main motivation is to see whether unionization can account for differences and trends in wage inequality in industrialized countries. We focus on the U.S., the...

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Changes over time in union relative wage effects in the UK and the US revisited

Blanchflower, David - 2002

countries, such as Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Spain … the non-union sector (e.g. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden) there is no significant union wage …

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Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States

Gosling, Amanda - 2001

This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the two countries during this period. We attribute this...

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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992 : A Semiparametric Approach

DiNardo, John - 1995

This paper presents a semiparametric procedure to analyze the effects of institutional and labor market factors on recent changes in the U.S. distribution of wages. The effects of these factors are estimated by applying kernel density methods to appropriately 'reweighted' samples. The procedure...

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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