Unions and Income Inequality: A Panel Cointegration and Causality Analysis for the United States

被引:11
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作者
Herzer, Dierk [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Hamburg, Econ, Hamburg, Germany
关键词
unions; income inequality; panel cointegration; causality; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; ERROR-CORRECTION; INSTITUTIONS; PERSPECTIVE; HYPOTHESIS; REGRESSION; DUALISM; TRENDS; TESTS;
D O I
10.1177/0891242416634852
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
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.
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页码:267 / 274
页数:8
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