Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Labor Markets
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3516508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Pencavel (John Pencavel is the Pauline K. Levin-Robert L. Levin and Pauline C. Levin-Abraham Levin Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 139-167 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019793920928962 |
| OpenAlex | W3018181357 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Income inequality in the United States has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the 1940s to the 1970s, patterns in movements of wage differentials are revealed. As wages increased, some contracts maintained relative wage differentials constant, some maintained absolute differences in wages constant, others combined these two patterns, and some did not reveal an obvious pattern. The patterns persisted even as price inflation increased in the 1970s. The dominant pattern implies a reduction in inequality as usually measured
Collective bargaining · Economics · Efficiency wage · Inequality · Inflation (cosmology) · Labour economics · Real wages · Wage · Wage Inequality · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Political Economy and Marxism
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