Labor unions and the distribution of wages and employment in South Africa.
Few countries have higher wage inequality than South Africa, where wages of African and white workers differ by a factor of five. Using survey data collected in 1993, the authors analyze the complex effect of unions on this wage gap. Among male African workers in the bottom decile of the wage dist...
| Publicado en: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 680 - 704 |
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Cornell University
July 1998
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