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 associated with labor unions seem like something that one would come to have more affection for as one ages.




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Published on June 16, 2011 10:44
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