What Can Unions Do? An Impact Estimate for an Increase in the US Private-Sector Unionization Rate on Workers’ Earnings

IF 4.4 2区社会学 Q1 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

Work and Occupations Pub Date : 2023-03-14 DOI:10.1177/07308884231162933

T. Kristal

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Abstract

Unions are known to increase earnings and wage equality. Therefore, indications for recent union revitalization provoke the question of what unions would do today were they to restore their union density and hence power to the level of the early 1980s (about 20%). This article presents wage estimates for 1983 to 2020, assuming a 20% union density from 1983 onward, revealing higher earnings and lower wage inequality. However, since union membership today typifies low-wage workers with weaker bargaining power than formerly, the benefits from restoring union density and power will likely be lower today than in the past.

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工会能做什么?美国私营部门工会化率增加对工人收入的影响估计

众所周知，工会能提高收入和工资平等。因此，最近工会振兴的迹象引发了一个问题，即如果工会将其工会密度和权力恢复到20世纪80年代初的水平（约20%），他们今天会怎么做。本文给出了1983年至2020年的工资估计，假设从1983年起工会密度为20%，揭示了更高的收入和更低的工资不平等。然而，由于今天的工会成员代表着议价能力比以前弱的低工资工人，因此恢复工会密度和权力带来的好处可能会比过去更低。

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