Seminario para optar al título de Ingeniero Comercial, Mención Economía / This paper attempts to measure the e ect of trade unions on wage inequality in Chile
using panel data. Income distribution analysis is performed through a variance decomposition
approach, while income equations are estimated via instrumental variables. Union history of
the individual is used as an instrument. We nd that the union premium is 21%, but it is due
to non-observable individual characteristics rather than union structure. Once we control for
these characteristics, the union premium loses signi cance. Therefore, the e ect on income
distribution is null. Comparative evidence shows that Chile lags behind OECD countries in
terms of labour legislation, even if the labour reform in process is implemented.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UCHILE/oai:repositorio.uchile.cl:2250/135192 |
| Date | 13 November 2015 |
| Creators | Rosselot Labella, Santiago, Mac Auliffe Menchaca, Raimundo |
| Contributors | Contreras Guajardo, Dante,1965-, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Escuela de Economía y Administración |
| Publisher | Universidad de Chile |
| Source Sets | Universidad de Chile |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Tesis |
| Rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Chile, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ |
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