union premium narrows

Andrew English aenglish at igc.org
Tue May 16 12:18:25 PDT 2000


Doesn't the whole concept of a union advantage/premium require comparing people in similar occupations in order to detemine the true effect of unions?

Comparing blue-collar to blue-collar and white collar-to-white collar etc.

-Andy English


>[from today's Wall Street Journal Work Week feature on the front page]
>
>THE WAGE GAP narrows between union and nonunion workers.
>
Albert Schwenk, an economist for the bureau,
>attributes the change to an increase in the number of white-collar
>workers. "White-collar workers get more increases, and union members
>tend not to be white-collar," he said.
.



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