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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Another Look At Age And Labor Unions | ThinkProgress

Another Look At Age And Labor Unions | ThinkProgress

Another Look At Age And Labor Unions

Matt Di Carlo has an even clearer demonstration of the strong relationship between being old and being skeptical of labor unions, this time using General Social Survey data:

The available data doesn’t really let us know if this is an aging effect or a cohort effect, but my speculation is that it’s a cohort effect if only because seniority-oriented pay schemes