Unions and Income Inequality

Dierk Herzer

Economic Development Quarterly, 2016, vol. 30, issue 3, 267-274

Abstract: In this research note it is shown that, by applying cointegration and causality techniques to U.S. state-level panel data, there is a negative long-run relationship between unionization and income inequality in the United States, and that causality is unidirectional from unionization to inequality.

Keywords: unions; income inequality; panel cointegration; causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0891242416634852

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