Unions and Equity.

Trade unions have been successful in compressing the wage distribution but not in influencing the share of national income going to labour. This paper claims that a compressed wage distribution provides insurance in the same way that the tax and benefit system does and thus may be welfare-improving....

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Auteur principal: O`Shaughnessy, T
Format: Working paper
Langue:English
Publié: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2000