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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … promoted in the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the …
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Union, nonunion, and overall wages, plus regression-based union wage gap estimates, are provided annually, beginning in …
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Labor unions, chiefly through collective organizing and bargaining, almost universally increase the wages of their …
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Estimates of union wage effects have been challenged due to concerns over unobserved worker heterogeneity and endogenous job changes. Many believe that union wage premiums lead to business failures and other forms of worker displacement. In this paper, displacement rates and union wage gaps are...
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In a framework of a unionised oligopoly, this paper reconsiders the impact of the bargaining structure on union wages … argument will be that negotiated wages rather depend on the technical relationship between different groups of labour and goods …
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longitudinal nature of the data enables us to exploit within-worker variation in wages over time, controlling for unobservable … agreements centrally set wages, while individual union membership is more important in contexts where wage-setting is more …
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union presence variable) on wages in Ghana. We employ the Heckman Selection Model and quantile regression technique to … (GLFS 2015) respectively. The findings indicate that unions' bargaining effect on wages is positive. Furthermore, the study …
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structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …
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. -- unions ; wages ; wage dispersion ; Latin America …
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This paper provides estimates of the union wage gap in Portugal, a nation until recently lacking independent data on union density at firm level. Having estimated nonlinear and linear estimates of the effect of union density on the wage gap, the next stage of the analysis seeks to account for...
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