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

Card, David - 2018

America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies find that unions reduce wage … in the effects of unionization on wage inequality. At present, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10 … unions on male and female wage inequality no longer differ. The key differences in union impacts are between the public and …

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

Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2021

find that unions have remarkably similar qualitative impacts in all three countries. In particular, unions tend to …

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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2022

This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...

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Trade, Technology and U.K. Wage Inequality

Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021

The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....

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