data on men in the United States and Canada in 1981 and 1988, the authors study the effect of labor market institutions on … increase in hourly wage inequality, those changes were much more pronounced in the United States than in Canada. Using micro …

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our … concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector industries. With the steady decline in private sector unionization and rising … inequality among men but not among women. In both countries we find striking differences between the private and public sectors …