The effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africa

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dc.contributor.advisorLeibbrandt, Murrayen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorYan, Junen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-11T06:48:27Z
dc.date.available2014-09-11T06:48:27Z
dc.date.issued2002en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 52-55.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe paper begins with an introduction of trade unions in South Africa, focusing on the union membership trend in the last two decades of the twentieth century. This is followed by a review of work on earnings functions and modelling South African trade unions in chapter 2. The aim of this chapter is to show what work has been done in the area of earnings functions and trade unions. It also highlights the contribution of this paper as analysing the role of trade unions in determining earnings inequality and not just earnings levels. Chapter 3 analyses the variables in a trade union model, such as education, location, gender, experience, sector and occupation. Chapter 4 examines the decomposition of the effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings. We find that the result of effect of trade unions on earnings inequality is higher than in comparable international work. The effect is much higher in the general earnings equation with union interactive variables than the equation with a single union dummy. We also find that, for the overall contribution to earnings inequality, education, sector and location have higher contributions in the non-unionised group than the unionised group. This indicates that trade unions have significant effect in dampening the effect of other variables on earnings inequality.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationYan, J. (2002). <i>The effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africa</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7421en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationYan, Jun. <i>"The effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africa."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7421en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationYan, J. 2002. The effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africa. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Yan, Jun AB - The paper begins with an introduction of trade unions in South Africa, focusing on the union membership trend in the last two decades of the twentieth century. This is followed by a review of work on earnings functions and modelling South African trade unions in chapter 2. The aim of this chapter is to show what work has been done in the area of earnings functions and trade unions. It also highlights the contribution of this paper as analysing the role of trade unions in determining earnings inequality and not just earnings levels. Chapter 3 analyses the variables in a trade union model, such as education, location, gender, experience, sector and occupation. Chapter 4 examines the decomposition of the effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings. We find that the result of effect of trade unions on earnings inequality is higher than in comparable international work. The effect is much higher in the general earnings equation with union interactive variables than the equation with a single union dummy. We also find that, for the overall contribution to earnings inequality, education, sector and location have higher contributions in the non-unionised group than the unionised group. This indicates that trade unions have significant effect in dampening the effect of other variables on earnings inequality. DA - 2002 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2002 T1 - The effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africa TI - The effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7421 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationYan J. The effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africa. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2002 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7421en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Economicsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEconomicsen_ZA
dc.titleThe effect of trade unions on the inequality of wage earnings in South Africaen_ZA
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