Market Forces, Trade Union Ideology and Trends in Swedish Wage Dispersion

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2302733
AutoresDouglas A Hibbs (Trade Union Institute for Economic Research, Stockholm, autor correspondente)
Ano1991
Volume34
Fascículo2
Páginas89-102
Data de publicação1991-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoActa Sociologica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000169939103400202
OpenAlexW2159004062
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas6

Compression of the distribution of relative wages was an important goal of Sweden's central confederation of blue-collar trade unions (LO) from the mid-1960s up to the breakdown of effective central wage formation in the early 1980s. In this article I analyze LO's success in achieving its ideology of wage equality in the market by companng observed wage dispersion trends to (i) the time path of human capital dispersion and (ii) the time path of wage dispersion built into the central framework wage agreements. I interpret the results of the comparisons as yielding strong evidence that egalitarian trade union ideology exerted powerful influence on the course of Swedish wage distribution

Dispersion (optics · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Efficiency wage · Ideology · Labour economics · Political science · Politics · Wage · Wage dispersion · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies