Measuring the union-nonunion wage gap using propensity score matching

Industrial Relations

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 766-780

  Eren, Ozkan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; PANEL DATA; PRIVATE SECTOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WAGE GAP;

EID: 35248899832     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2007.00496.x     Document Type: Article

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