EPI: Union Membership and the Income Share of the Top Ten Percent - Smlr_net

7 Oct 2013


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*Title:  ** *Union Membership and the Income Share of the Top Ten Percent
*Source:*  Economic Policy Institute
*Author:  *Colin Gordon
*Date: * Oct 7, 2013
*Abstract:*  In a previous post and economic snapshot, I and others noted
the historical symmetry of the rise and fall of union density across the
last century and its uncanny mirror image—the fall and rise of the share of
income going to the top ten percent. The juxtaposition of the two lines
suggests less a direct causal relationship than an emblematic one—between
the trajectory of the workers’ bargaining power on the one hand, and
trajectory of rent-padded top incomes on the other.
* Link: * http://bit.ly/1bQDnmY
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