The Decline of Us Labor Unions and the Role of Trade
, by Baldwin, Robert E.
- ISBN: 9780881323412 | 0881323411
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/2003
Robert E. Baldwin, visiting fellow, is Hiddale Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was chief economist in the Office of the US Trade Representative (1963-64) and served as a consultant on trade matters in the US Department of Labor (1975-76), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1975), the World Bank (1978-79), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1988, 1993, and 1997). From 1991 to 1992, he served as chair of the Panel on Foreign Trade Statistics for the National Academy of Science's Committee on National Trade Statistics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also a member of the external advisory group to Mike Moore, former director-general of the World Trade Organization
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Overview | p. 1 |
| Trends in National and Regional Unionization Rates and in Union Versus Nonunion Wages | p. 7 |
| National Trends in Unionization | p. 7 |
| Regional Trends in Unionization | p. 10 |
| Trends in the Earnings of Union Relative to Nonunion Workers | p. 10 |
| Changes in Unionization Rates: A Decomposition Analysis | p. 15 |
| Industry Effects on the National Rate of Unionization | p. 16 |
| Industry Effects on Regional Unionization Rates in Manufacturing | p. 19 |
| Regional Effects on the National Unionization Rate in Manufacturing | p. 23 |
| The Effects of Trade and Other Economic Factors on the Rate of Unionization: An Analytical Review | p. 27 |
| Increases in Trade and Foreign Direct Investment | p. 28 |
| Technological Changes | p. 30 |
| Relative Shifts in the Demand for Goods and Services | p. 31 |
| Changes in the Relative Supply of Basically Educated Versus More-Educated Labor | p. 32 |
| Net Effects of the Four Economic Forces | p. 33 |
| Estimating the Impact of Increased Trade on the Employment of Union and Nonunion Workers | p. 37 |
| Statistical Model | p. 37 |
| Data Issues | p. 40 |
| Summary Statistics | p. 42 |
| Regression Results | p. 45 |
| Total Employment Effects | p. 57 |
| Conclusions | p. 65 |
| Main Findings | p. 65 |
| The Need for More Extensive Worker Assistance Programs | p. 69 |
| Data Sources | p. 73 |
| List of Industries in the Database | p. 75 |
| References | p. 81 |
| Index | p. 83 |
| Tables | |
| Proportion of unionized workers by product sector and educational level, 1977-97 | |
| Distribution of unionized workers across product sectors and educational levels, 1977-97 | |
| Proportion of unionized workers in manufacturing by region and year, 1977-97 | |
| Earning levels and ratios of union and nonunion workers by sector and educational level, 1977-97 | |
| Estimated changes in unionization rates due to within-industries shifts in unionization rates and between-industries shifts in employment, 1977-87 and 1987-97 | |
| Estimated percent distribution of changes in regional unionization rats in manufacturing due to within-industries and between-industries shifts in employment, 1977-87 and 1987-97 | |
| Regional distribution of change in national unionization rate in manufacturing due to within-regions shifts in unionization rates and between-regions shifts in employment shares, 1977-87 and 1987-97 | |
| Summary statistics for manufacturing, 1977-87 and 1987-97 | |
| Summary statistics for goods and services sectors, 1977-87 and 1987-97 | |
| Employment changes by union status regressed on changes in domestic spending, imports, exports, and labor coefficients, 1977-87 and 1987-97 | |
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