The effect of private versus public ownership on labour earnings
We examine the impact of privatisation on wage formation in unionised labour markets. Using longitudinal worker-firm data for Portugal spanning the period 1991-2007, we find that privatisation leads to higher wages, and show that this effect is driven by the fact that privatized firms tend to pay la...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/30401 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/30401 |