Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62493 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6757
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage distribution within these three economies. The findings suggest that the political economy of unions, coupled with market constraints on labor costs, produce commonality in union wage effects that transcend other economic and institutional differences.
Subjects: 
unions
wages
wage dispersion
Latin America
JEL: 
J31
J51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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