How Does Declining Unionism Affect the American Middle Class and Intergenerational Mobility?

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How Does Declining Unionism Affect the American Middle Class and Intergenerational Mobility? Richard Freeman, October 2015, Paper. "This paper examines unionism's relationship to the size of the middle class and its relationship to intergenerational mobility. We use the PSID 1985 and 2011 files to examine the change in the share of workers in a middle-income group (defined by persons having incomes within 50% of the median) and use a shift-share decomposition to explore how the decline of unionism contributes to the shrinking middle class. We also use the files to investigate the correlation between parents' union status..." Link

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