There Is Power in a Union
“It may surprise some readers that economists consider the statement ‘unions help workers’ a revelation akin to discovering general relativity. (Another recent finding, ‘where you grow up matters,’ has also shaken the economics establishment to its core.) But economists haven’t had the necessary data to study unions in any depth. Detailed data on education goes back to the 1940s, but the government only introduced questions tracking union status in 1973. Yet the authors of ‘Unions and Inequality’ newly applied a Gallup data set that allowed them to analyze workers back to the 1930s.”