Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality

Autor/inn/en	Western, Bruce; Rosenfeld, Jake
Titel	Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
Quelle	In: American Sociological Review, 76 (2011) 4, S.513-537 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1224
DOI	10.1177/0003122411414817
Schlagwörter	Wages; Private Sector; Salary Wage Differentials; Unions; Norms; Union Members; Gender Differences; Labor Market; Trend Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wage; Löhne; Privater Sektor; Normwert; Gewerkschaftsmitglied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Trendanalyse
Abstract	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. (Contains 9 figures, 2 tables, and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10