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Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Symposium on Public and Private Unionization

  • Edward P. Lazear
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 1988
(pp. 59–62)
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Abstract

Understanding the source of the decline of private sector unions and concomitant rise of public sectors unions is essential. Without that knowledge, the welfare effects of the changes cannot be ascertained. The two essays that follow take us a long way down the road toward that understanding.

Citation

Lazear, Edward P. 1988. "Symposium on Public and Private Unionization." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2 (2): 59–62. DOI: 10.1257/jep.2.2.59

JEL Classification

  • 831 Trade Unions
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