Deunionization, Technical Change and Inequality

By Daron Acemoglu, Philippe Aghion, Giovanni L. Violante. 2001

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Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD (2009, background): “In particular, unskilled workers are more likely to be covered by union agreements than skilled workers, since they represent the bulk of unions’ membership (see Acemoglu et al. 2001).”
Labor Unions, Political Representation, and Economic Inequality (2017, background): “Acemoglu et al. (2001) develop a widely cited model explicitly linking SBTC to both deunionization and increased wage inequality.”
Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions (2005, background): “inequality to the evolution of skilled-unskilled relative unemployment rates (Nickell and Bell, 1996; Acemoglu et al., 2001; Acemoglu, 2003).”
The Elusive Explanation for the Declining Labor Share (2021, background): “Acemoglu et al. (2001) argue that skill-biased technical change causes deunionization, because it improves the outside option for skilled workers, thereby undermining the coalition between skilled and unskilled workers that may be needed to sustain a union.”
Inequality and Labor Market Institutions (2015, unknown): “More formal schooling leads workers toward jobs and/or sectors in which the incentives to organize unions are weaker (Acemoglu, Aghion, and Violante, 2001), while at the same time generating larger income differentials.”
Labor Market Institutions and Wage Inequality (2007, background): “Deunionization or minimum wages might be at least partly endogenous to changes in trade and technol ogy (Acemoglu et al. 2001).”
Inequality, financial development and economic growth in the OECD, 1870–2011 (2018, background): “…the employment effect in standard union models (Bentolila and Saint-Paul, 2003; Blanchard and Giavazzi, 2003; Piketty, 2015).3 Similarly, expansion of welfare provisions and 2 For example, Acemoglu et al. (2001) argue that inequality is fundamentally caused by skilled biased technical change.”