Asymmetries in the union wage premium in Ghana (English)

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...
See More

DETAILS

See More

DOWNLOADS

COMPLETE REPORT

Official version of document (may contain signatures, etc)

  • Official PDF

  • TXT*

  • Total Downloads** : 271

  • Download Stats

  • *The text version is uncorrected OCR text and is included solely to benefit users with slow connectivity.

Citation

Blunch,Niels-Hugo; Verner,Dorte.

Asymmetries in the union wage premium in Ghana (English). Washington DC : World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/249541468029694646

SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL ALERTS

This document is being processed or is not available.