| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24587 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24587 |
| Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data | |
| Henry S. Farber; Daniel Herbst; Ilyana Kuziemko; Suresh Naidu | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-05-14 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | U.S. income inequality has varied inversely with union density over the past hundred years. But moving beyond this aggregate relationship has proven difficult, in part because of limited microdata on union membership prior to 1973.We develop a new source of microdata on union membership dating back to 1936, survey data primarily from Gallup (N ≈ 980,000), to examine the long-run relationship between unions and inequality. We document dramatic changes in the demographics of union members: when density was at its mid-century peak, union households were much less educated and more non-white than other households, whereas pre-World-War-II and today they are more similar to non-union households on these dimensions. However, despite large changes in composition and density since 1936, the household union premium holds relatively steady between ten and twenty log points. We then use our data to examine the effect of unions on income inequality. Using distributional decompositions, time-series regressions, state-year regressions, as well as a new instrumental-variable strategy based on the 1935 legalization of unions and the World-War- II era War Labor Board, we find consistent evidence that unions reduce inequality, explaining a significant share of the dramatic fall in inequality between the mid-1930s and late 1940s. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Relations ; History ; Labor and Health History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24587 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582261 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Henry S. Farber,Daniel Herbst,Ilyana Kuziemko,et al. Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data. 2018. |
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