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Item Employer size, union strength, and their effects on wage rates(Texas Tech University, 1996-05) Yeatman, John DarrelThe purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of union strength on wages at different levels of employer size in a framework that corrects for sample selection bias. Previous research using adjusted ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates has determined that the effect of union strength on wages increases with employer size in the nonunion sector, but is fairly constant with respect to size in the union sector. If a nonrandom sorting process matches workers to sector of employment, then wage equations estimated by OLS wiU suffer from sample selection bias. This paper corrects the selectivity problem by using Lung-Fei Lee's model which, in addition to union and nonunion wage equations, includes a union status equation determining sector of employment.Item Organized labor and the alliance for progress(Texas Tech University, 1964-08) Shepherd, Ernest DeanIn view of the previous statement, the hypothesis of this paper is as follows: Organized labor, in the United States and in Latin America, is an essential force in achieving the goals of the Alliance for Progress. With regard to purpose, the plan of this thesis is to examine the role that labor is playing and will play in the Alliance and to judge its impact as to the validity of the above hypothesis.Item De sol a sol : the limits to union organizing in the nontraditional export plantations of northern Peru(2012-12) Hershaw, Eva Rose; Knapp, Gregory W.; Dulitzky, Ariel E.; Jensen, RobertThe liberalizing economic reforms that began under Fujimori in the 1990s have had a profound impact on primary production processes throughout the country of Peru. In the northern coastal region of La Libertad, such reforms have rearranged the physical landscape for the cultivation of nontraditional exports and have as a result altered internal migration mechanisms that provide abundant and cheap labor to domestic and multinational corporations operating on the coast. The downward pressures on labor have been acute as Peru competes for investment on a global scale with other developing countries. Organized resistance in response to poor working conditions and an inadequate regulatory framework has made few tangible gains over the years despite widespread discontent among agribusiness workers. Looking at the macro-level economic framework and national legislation, ethnic divisions of labor and task specification, as well as internal corporate practices that dissuade union affiliation, this study will examine the factors that have limited union organizing in northern Peruvian agribusiness the role of corporations, specifically that of Camposol, in community and regional development.