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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Main Authors:	Blunch, Niels-Hugo, Verner, Dorte
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
Subjects:	ACTIVE LABOR ADVERSE EFFECTS ASPECT BARGAINING POWER BOARD MEMBER CENTRE COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COMPANY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS EARNINGS INEQUALITY ECONOMICS EFFICIENCY WAGES EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP EX POST EXCLUSION RESTRICTION FIRM LEVEL FIRM SIZE HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INDIVIDUALS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOBS LABOR DEMAND LABOR MARKET LABOR ORGANIZATIONS LABOR RELATIONS LABOR TURNOVER LABOR UNIONS LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR MARKET POLICIES LIMITED LITERATURE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MINIMUM WAGE MOTIVATION OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONS ORGANIZED LABOR PAID WORKERS PRESENT ANALYSIS PREVIOUS SECTION PREVIOUS STUDIES PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTION WORKER PRODUCTIVITY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROXY RENTS RESEARCHERS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STOCK VALUES TECHNICAL EDUCATION TRADE UNION TRADE UNIONS TRAINED WORKERS TRAINING FIRM UNEMPLOYMENT UNION UNION DENSITIES UNION DENSITY UNION MEMBERSHIP UNION WAGE PREMIUM VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WAGE DETERMINATION WAGE DIFFERENTIAL WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGE EFFECT WAGE EFFECTS WAGE INEQUALITY WAGE NEGOTIATION WAGE NEGOTIATIONS WAGE STRUCTURE WAGES WORKER
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/17742591/asymmetries-union-wage-premium-ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17161

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spelling	okr-10986-171612021-04-23T14:03:29Z Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana Blunch, Niels-Hugo Verner, Dorte ACTIVE LABOR ADVERSE EFFECTS ASPECT BARGAINING POWER BOARD MEMBER CENTRE COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COMPANY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS EARNINGS INEQUALITY ECONOMICS EFFICIENCY WAGES EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP EX POST EXCLUSION RESTRICTION FIRM LEVEL FIRM SIZE HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INDIVIDUALS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOBS LABOR DEMAND LABOR MARKET LABOR ORGANIZATIONS LABOR RELATIONS LABOR TURNOVER LABOR UNIONS LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR MARKET POLICIES LIMITED LITERATURE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MINIMUM WAGE MOTIVATION OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONS ORGANIZED LABOR PAID WORKERS PRESENT ANALYSIS PREVIOUS SECTION PREVIOUS STUDIES PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTION WORKER PRODUCTIVITY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROXY RENTS RESEARCHERS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STOCK VALUES TECHNICAL EDUCATION TRADE UNION TRADE UNIONS TRAINED WORKERS TRAINING FIRM UNEMPLOYMENT UNION UNION DENSITIES UNION DENSITY UNION MEMBERSHIP UNION WAGE PREMIUM VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WAGE DETERMINATION WAGE DIFFERENTIAL WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGE EFFECT WAGE EFFECTS WAGE INEQUALITY WAGE NEGOTIATION WAGE NEGOTIATIONS WAGE STRUCTURE WAGES WORKER 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. 2014-02-25T23:19:20Z 2014-02-25T23:19:20Z 2004-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/17742591/asymmetries-union-wage-premium-ghana World Bank Economic Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17161 English en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Ghana
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topic	ACTIVE LABOR ADVERSE EFFECTS ASPECT BARGAINING POWER BOARD MEMBER CENTRE COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COMPANY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS EARNINGS INEQUALITY ECONOMICS EFFICIENCY WAGES EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP EX POST EXCLUSION RESTRICTION FIRM LEVEL FIRM SIZE HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INDIVIDUALS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOBS LABOR DEMAND LABOR MARKET LABOR ORGANIZATIONS LABOR RELATIONS LABOR TURNOVER LABOR UNIONS LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR MARKET POLICIES LIMITED LITERATURE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MINIMUM WAGE MOTIVATION OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONS ORGANIZED LABOR PAID WORKERS PRESENT ANALYSIS PREVIOUS SECTION PREVIOUS STUDIES PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTION WORKER PRODUCTIVITY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROXY RENTS RESEARCHERS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STOCK VALUES TECHNICAL EDUCATION TRADE UNION TRADE UNIONS TRAINED WORKERS TRAINING FIRM UNEMPLOYMENT UNION UNION DENSITIES UNION DENSITY UNION MEMBERSHIP UNION WAGE PREMIUM VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WAGE DETERMINATION WAGE DIFFERENTIAL WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGE EFFECT WAGE EFFECTS WAGE INEQUALITY WAGE NEGOTIATION WAGE NEGOTIATIONS WAGE STRUCTURE WAGES WORKER
spellingShingle	ACTIVE LABOR ADVERSE EFFECTS ASPECT BARGAINING POWER BOARD MEMBER CENTRE COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COMPANY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS EARNINGS INEQUALITY ECONOMICS EFFICIENCY WAGES EMPLOYEE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP EX POST EXCLUSION RESTRICTION FIRM LEVEL FIRM SIZE HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN RESOURCES INDIVIDUALS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOBS LABOR DEMAND LABOR MARKET LABOR ORGANIZATIONS LABOR RELATIONS LABOR TURNOVER LABOR UNIONS LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR MARKET POLICIES LIMITED LITERATURE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES MINIMUM WAGE MOTIVATION OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONS ORGANIZED LABOR PAID WORKERS PRESENT ANALYSIS PREVIOUS SECTION PREVIOUS STUDIES PRIMARY EDUCATION PRODUCTION WORKER PRODUCTIVITY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROXY RENTS RESEARCHERS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STOCK VALUES TECHNICAL EDUCATION TRADE UNION TRADE UNIONS TRAINED WORKERS TRAINING FIRM UNEMPLOYMENT UNION UNION DENSITIES UNION DENSITY UNION MEMBERSHIP UNION WAGE PREMIUM VOCATIONAL EDUCATION WAGE DETERMINATION WAGE DIFFERENTIAL WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGE DISTRIBUTION WAGE EFFECT WAGE EFFECTS WAGE INEQUALITY WAGE NEGOTIATION WAGE NEGOTIATIONS WAGE STRUCTURE WAGES WORKER Blunch, Niels-Hugo Verner, Dorte Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana
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description	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.
format	Publications & Research :: Journal Article
author	Blunch, Niels-Hugo Verner, Dorte
author_facet	Blunch, Niels-Hugo Verner, Dorte
author_sort	Blunch, Niels-Hugo
title	Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana
title_short	Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana
title_full	Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana
title_fullStr	Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana
title_full_unstemmed	Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana
title_sort	asymmetries in the union wage premium in ghana
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/05/17742591/asymmetries-union-wage-premium-ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17161
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Asymmetries in the Union Wage Premium in Ghana

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