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Article: Wage inequality and collective bargaining: hotels and casinos in Nevada.
- Article from:
- Journal of Economic Issues
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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A bulk of the research on rising wage inequality has focused on the national or international levels and has demonstrated that weakening wage-setting institutions such as collective bargaining play a significant role in explaining the growth in wage dispersion in the United States (e.g., Freeman 1996; Freeman and Katz 1994; Gottschalk and Smeeding 1997; Ryscavage 1999; Thurow 1998). (1) An estimate by R. B. Freeman and L. F. Katz (1994), for example, suggested that declining unionization in the United States accounted for about one-fifth of the increase in earnings inequality between 1980 and 1992 (for similar findings see Smeeding 1997).
In the spirit of the ...