Market Forces, Trade Union Ideology and Trends in Swedish Wage Dispersion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2302733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas A Hibbs (Trade Union Institute for Economic Research, Stockholm, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 89-102 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Sociologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000169939103400202 |
| OpenAlex | W2159004062 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 6 |
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
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2026 (36) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |