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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment
Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 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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Collective bargaining for women : how unions can create female-friendly jobs
Corradini, Viola; Lagos, Lorenzo; Sharma, Garima - 2022
Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade union federation made women central to its bargaining agenda. Neither establishments nor workers...
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The rules of game : local wage bargaining and the gender pay gap
Olsson, Maria; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2024
We study how local bargaining institutions affect the within-job gender wage gap among Swedish blue collar workers. Collective agreements with varying degrees of local flexibility tend to cover blue-collar workers across different occupations within the same firm. As a consequence, workers...
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Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap
Antonczyk, Dirk - 2014
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly ﾖ driven not only by...
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Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap
Antonczyk, Dirk - 2014
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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? : assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - 2010
This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection...
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Should Low-Wage Workers Care About Where They Work? Assessing the Impact of Employer Characteristics on Low-Wage Mobility
Guertzgen, Nicole - 2010
This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138980
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Gender differences in the union wage premium? : a comparative case study
Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Nergaard, Kristine - 2016
using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys for Norway and Britain we examine whether, in keeping with … bargaining power of their union as indicated by workplace union density. In Norway, on the other hand, although a union wage … their more progressive counterparts in Norway. …
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Low wage returns to schooling in a developing country : evidence from a major policy reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform of compulsory schooling. We estimate that among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra...
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The Gender Wage Gap and Wage Arrears in Russia : Evidence from the RLMS
Gerry, Christopher J. - 2006
Using the RLMS, this paper re-examines the gender wage gap in Russia from 1994 to 1998. We find that the average gender wage gap was fairly stable during 1994-1996 but that it became wider following the financial crisis of 1998. In particular, low-income female employees were hardest hit by the...
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