Diverging male wage inequality in the United States and Canada, 1981-1988: do institutions explain the difference?
The U.S. and the Canadian economies have much in common, including similar collective bargaining structures. During the period 1981-88, however, although both countries witnessed a decline in the percentage of workers belonging to unions and an increase in hourly wage inequality, those changes were...
| Publicado en: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 50; pp. 629 - 652 |
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Cornell University
July 1997
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