The Changing Size Distribution of U.S. Trade Unions and its Description by Pareto's Distribution

John Pencavel

ILR Review, 2014, vol. 67, issue 1, 138-170

Abstract: The size distribution of trade unions in the United States and changes in this distribution are documented. Because the most profound changes are taking place among very large unions, these are subject to special analysis by invoking Pareto's distribution—a new application of this distribution. Extensions to trade union wealth and to Britain are broached. The role of the public sector in these changes receives particular attention. A simple model helps account both for the logarithmic distribution of union membership and for the contrasting experiences of public- and private-sector unions since the 1970s.

Date: 2014
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