Title

Three Essays in Empirical Labour Economics

Date of Award

Fall 2012

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Economics

Supervisor

Stephen R.G. Jones

Co-Supervisor

Jeffery S. Racine

Language

English

Committee Member

Shintaro Yamaguchi

Abstract

The work in this thesis aims to examine a number of labour market issues with attention paid to the assumptions involved in the empirical methods
employed here and in previous work. The relationship between unionization and employment growth is examined using a panel of Canadian workplaces, a number of high school work experience programs are evaluated using several treatment effects estimation methods and a panel survey of American youths, and unionization's impact on production ineffciency is examined using data from the Canadian manufacturing sector.

McMaster University Library



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