What effect do unions have on wages now and would freeman and medoff be surprised?
What effect do unions have on wages now and would freeman and medoff be surprised?
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工会现在对工资有什么影响？弗里曼和梅多夫会感到惊讶吗？
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10.1007/s12122-004-1022-9
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
A. Bryson
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作者：
David G. Blanchflower;A. Bryson
理查德·弗里曼和詹姆斯·梅多夫（F&M） 1984年出版的开创性著作《工会做什么？》产生了巨大的影响。在1985年1月出版的《工业与劳动关系评论》的书评研讨会上，一位评论员Orley Ashenfelter说，大众媒体对这本书的反应“简直令人叹为观止”（第245页）它在写作时受到了好评如潮，与大多数书籍不同，它经受住了时间的考验。它无疑是劳动经济学和劳资关系领域最著名的著作。研讨会上的另一位评论者丹·米切尔（Dan Mitchell）称其为“社会科学研究中的一个里程碑”，事实也证明了这一点（第253页）。我们去了社会科学引文索引，输入“工会做什么”（以下简称WDUD），发现它被其他学者引用了一千多次在此，我们表明，尽管私营部门的工会组织已经急剧下降，但他们在20世纪80年代初写的绝大多数评论仍然非常适用。有句老话说，经典的书是人人都在谈论但没人读的书。F&M的工作不在其中。这是一本真正的经典，因为它仍然是一本任何人——学者或外行人——对工会感兴趣都需要阅读的书！
Richard Freeman and James Medoff’s (F&M) pathbreaking 1984 book What Do Unions Do? has had an enormous impact. According to Orley Ashenfelter, one of the commentators in a review symposium on the book published in January 1985 in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the response of the popular press to the book “has only been short of breathtaking” (p. 245).1 It received rave reviews at the time it was written and unlike most books has withstood the test of time. It is certainly the most famous book in labor economics and industrial relations. One of the other reviewers in the symposium, Dan Mitchell called it “a landmark in social science research” and so it has proved (p. 253). We went to the Social Science Citations Index and typed in “What do unions do” (hereinafter WDUD) and found that it had been cited by other academics more than one thousand times.2 Herein we show that the vast majority of their commentary written in the early 1980s is still highly applicable despite the fact that private sector unionization has been in precipitous decline. An old adage is that a classic book is one that everyone talks about but nobody reads. F&M’s work is not one of those. It is a true classic because it continues to be a book that anyone — scholar or layman — interested in labor unions needs to read!