Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 835-847

  Antonczyk, Dirk ^a   Fitzenberger, Bernd ^a,b   Sommerfeld, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b IFS ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective bargaining; Gender wage gap; Quantile regression; Sequential decomposition; Wage distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955851990     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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