Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana
The article uses a matched employer-employee data set for Ghana and adopts a quantile regression approach that allows the effects of unionization to vary across the conditional wage distribution. It is shown that if there are intrafirm differences...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/17742591/asymmetries-union-wage-premium-ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17161 |
| Summary: | The article uses a matched
employer-employee data set for Ghana and adopts a quantile
regression approach that allows the effects of unionization
to vary across the conditional wage distribution. It is
shown that if there are intrafirm differences in
unionization, there does appear to be a premium among poorer
paid workers in the formal sector. Although this cannot be
given a causal interpretation, it suggests important issues
about how unions may affect one part of the labor market. |
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