Unions and Wages
统计数据显示,传统上将工会工资决定视为教科书式垄断行为的观点具有误导性;自20世纪50年代中期以来,尽管工会化比例下降,工会工资优势反而扩大,且对商业周期压力不敏感,这可能是管理层抵制工会化的原因。
Statistics suggest that the traditional view of union wage determination as a textbook monopolistic practice is misleading. Since the mid-1950s, the union wage advantage over the nonunion sector has widened despite a fall in the proportion of workers organized. Union wage determination has been less sensitive than nonunion to business-cycle pressures. The widening wage differential may explain the recent growth in management resistance to organization.