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

Gosling, Amanda; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021

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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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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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021

Although the college-high school wage gap for younger men has doubled over the past 30 years, the gap for older men has remained nearly constant. We argue that these shifts reflect changes in the relative supply of highly-educated workers across age groups. Cohorts born in the first half of the...

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