Asymmetries in union relative wage effects in Ghanaian manufacturing - an analysis applying quantile regressions (English)

The authors analyze the determinants of earnings in Ghanaian manufacturing, focusing on the impact of unions in terms of the "union relative wage effect", and the possible asymmetries of this effect across the earnings distribution. They find evidence of a union relative wage effect occurring through two distinct channels. First, there is a direct effect through individual union membership, the standard "union premium", well known from the empirical...

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Blunch,Niels-Hugo;

Verner,Dorte;
Document Date
2001/03/31
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS2570
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Ghana,
Region
Western and Central Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
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Asymmetries in union relative wage effects in Ghanaian manufacturing - an analysis applying quantile regressions
Keywords
ordinary least squares regression

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Blunch,Niels-Hugo; Verner,Dorte.

Asymmetries in union relative wage effects in Ghanaian manufacturing - an analysis applying quantile regressions (English). Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 2570 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/987051468749357684

Asymmetries in union relative wage effects in Ghanaian manufacturing - an analysis applying quantile regressions (English)

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