Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
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工会、规范和美国工资不平等的加剧
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2011
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Jake Rosenfeld
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B. Western;Jake Rosenfeld
从1973年到2007年，美国私营部门工会成员中男性从34%下降到8%，女性从16%下降到6%。在此期间，小时工资的不平等增加了40%以上。我们报告了一个分解，将日益严重的不平等与工会工资分配的权重缩小联系起来。我们认为，工会有助于制度化的公平规范，减少高度工会化的地区和行业的非工会工资的分散。考虑到工会对工会和非工会工资的影响，有组织的劳动力的减少解释了不平等增长的五分之一到三分之一，这一影响与教育对工资分层的影响相当。
From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34 to 8 percent for men and from 16 to 6 percent for women. During this period, inequality in hourly wages increased by over 40 percent. We report a decomposition, relating rising inequality to the union wage distribution’s shrinking weight. We argue that unions helped institutionalize norms of equity, reducing the dispersion of nonunion wages in highly unionized regions and industries. Accounting for unions’ effect on union and nonunion wages suggests that the decline of organized labor explains a fifth to a third of the growth in inequality—an effect comparable to the growing stratification of wages by education.