This paper re-examines the connection between unions and wage inequality, focusing on three questions: (1) How does the … inequality. Changes in unionization account for one-fifth of the increase of the variance of adult male wages between 1973 and …

unionism appears to reduce rather than increase wage dispersion or inequality in the United States …

In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …, especially after about 1998. Disposable income and consumption, on the other hand, display only a modest increase in inequality …

Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to … earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978 and 1988, a reduction in the dispersion of earnings among workers in the … inequality in Germany and those in the United States. Both the high quality of the training received by non- college-bound German …