South African Trade Unions: an Overview for 1995 to 2005

Type Working Paper - Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers
Title South African Trade Unions: an Overview for 1995 to 2005
Author(s)
Issue 10/08
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2008
Page numbers 1-56
URL http://www.ekon.sun.ac.za/wpapers/2008
Abstract
Trade unions played an important role in South Africa’s transition from apartheid in 1994 and continue to play a very public role in the South African economy. Trade unions are found to have had an increasingly positive effect on members’ wages, although it appears that this increase has resulted in part from changes in the composition of union membership. Unions also had an inequality-reducing character, with union premiums for workers at the lower end of the wage distribution being greater than those for workers at the higher end of the wage distribution.

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