We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their …

unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …

returns with regard to obtaining a job suited to their skill level and with high wages. Our data set combines information on …

workers' wages and to explore the factors that contribute to the existence of such mismatch among workers with higher …

functions regressions. Dependent variables are logarithms of the mean sector wages considered for each case. Some statistical …

Trade unions tend to reduce the dispersion of wages among their members. Skilled workers may therefore have an … theoretical model to gain insight into the determinants of the number of trade unions at a firm. We show that imperfect …

German Structure of Earnings Surveys (GSES) which allow us to focus on hourly wages (rather than daily earnings) uncensored … results suggest that recent changes in the distribution of hourly wages in Germany look different from the polarizing patterns …

unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …