Deunionization and pay inequality in OECD Countries: A panel Granger causality approach |
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| Institution: | 1. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;2. Keene State College, Keene, NH, USA;1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steels, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, P.R. China;2. EPM-Madylam, ENSHMG, BP 38402 St Martin d''Heres Cedex, France;3. Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, P.R. China;4. Laboratoire d''Étude des Microstructures et de Mécanique des Matériaux (LEM3), CNRS UMR 7239, Université de Lorraine, 57045 Metz, France;1. Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom;2. Cardiff University, United Kingdom;3. CEPR, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | The impact of unionization on wage inequality has been examined by a vast literature. Focusing mostly on the US and the UK in time series analyses or on OECD countries in panel data analyses, a bulk of these studies have found a negative impact of deunionization (i.e. decline in the union density rate) on distribution of wages. By utilizing two inequality data sets both provided by the University of Texas Inequality Project and the union density data set provided by OECD this paper contributes to the literature, analyzing the causality relationship between deunionization and pay inequality for 24 OECD countries for the 1963–2000 period within a panel Granger structure. Our findings show not only that there is causality from union density to income inequality but also, perhaps more importantly, point out that there is causality running from income inequality to union density for various set of countries and time periods. |
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