Asymmetries in the union wage premium in Ghana

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 237-252

  Blunch, Niels Hugo ^a,b   Verner, Dorte ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; TRADE UNION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 4644263672     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhh040     Document Type: Article

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