TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Rios-Avila, Fernando
AU  - Hirsch, Barry
        TI  - Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion: New Evidence from the Americas
        PY  - 2012/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6757
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6757
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - Latin America
KW  - wages
KW  - unions
KW  - wage dispersion
        ER  -