Unions and Income Inequality: A Panel Cointegration and Causality Analysis for the United States
Economic Development Quarterly: The Journal of American Economic Revitalization
Published online on March 03, 2016
Abstract
In this research note it is shown that by applying cointegration and causality techniques to U.S. state-level panel data there is a negative long-run relationship between unionization and income inequality in the United States and that causality is unidirectional from unionization to inequality.