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Note: The authors wish to thank Reinhard Neck, Thorvaldur Gylfason and the other participants of the session ¡°Economic Policy: Institutions, Political Economy, and Quantitative Economic Policy¡± as part of the 83rd International Atlantic Economic Conference, held in Berlin, March 22 through 25, 2017. We appreciate most valuable comments given by two anonymous referees.
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Keywords
Political Economy of the labor market; Union density; Wage dispersion; Average wage; Minimum wage;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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