| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w9473 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 9473 |
| Unionization and Wage Inequality: A Comparative Study of the U.S, the U.K., and Canada | |
| David Card; Thomas Lemieux; W. Craig Riddell | |
| 发表日期 | 2003-02-03 |
| 出版年 | 2003 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper presents a comparative analysis of the link between unionization and wage inequality in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. Our main motivation is to see whether unionization can account for differences and trends in wage inequality in industrialized countries. We focus on the U.S., the U.K., and Canada because the institutional arrangements governing unionization and collective bargaining are relatively similar in these three countries. The three countries also share large non-union sectors that can be used as a comparison group for the union sector. Using comparable micro data for the last two decades, we find that unions have remarkably similar qualitative impacts in all three countries. In particular, unions tend to systematically reduce wage inequality among men, but have little impact on wage inequality for women. We conclude that unionization helps explain a sizable share of cross-country differences in male wage inequality among the three countries. We also conclude that de-unionization explains a substantial part of the growth in male wage inequality in the U.K. and the U.S. since the early 1980s. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Labor Relations |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9473 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567092 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Card,Thomas Lemieux,W. Craig Riddell. Unionization and Wage Inequality: A Comparative Study of the U.S, the U.K., and Canada. 2003. |
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