New study shows apparent link between union membership and a child’s economic future

[applegrove]

New study shows apparent link between union membership and a child’s economic future

by David Wren at the Post-Courier

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150913/PC05/150919865/1177/new-study-shows-apparent-link-between-union-membership-and-a-child-x2019-s-economic-future

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“First, there are the direct effects that a parent’s union membership may have on their children,” the researchers say. “Union workers make more money than comparable nonunion workers — what economists call the union premium — and when parents make more money, their children tend to make more money — which economists refer to as the intergenerational earnings elasticity.”

Other possibile factors, according to the study:

Union jobs may be more stable and predictable, which could produce a more stable living environment.

Union jobs are more likely to provide family health insurance.

According to the study, children of noncollege-educated fathers earn 28 percent more as adults if their father was in a labor union. They also attain higher education levels than their nonunion counterparts.



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[Javaman]

1. Abso-fucking-lutely!

I come from a strong Union Family. And I completely agree with this study for I am an example of that everything that was stated in this article.

Support Unions. Support Families.

[Brickbat]

2. No shit.

[pampango]

3. “It has been shown that unions push up wages for nonunion workers,

for example, and these wage gains for nonunion members could be passed on to their children,” the researchers say. “Children who grow up in nonunion households may also display more mobility in highly unionized areas, for example, because they may be able to join a union when they enter the labor market.”

As in previous studies about upward mobility, the one focusing on unions shows Southern states lag behind the rest of the nation, probably because the South has a lower rate of union membership than other parts of the country. In South Carolina, for example, just 2.2 percent of workers are union members — second-lowest in the nation behind North Carolina’s 1.9 percent rate.

That’s not likely to change, says a Brookings Institution report that shows while unions deliver things that people want, like higher wages, union opponents have built structural barriers to labor organizing that continue to deplete membership.

Those barriers include right-to-work laws that reduce a union’s ability to collect dues."

Taft-Hartley with its 'right-to-work' provisions is the RW plague that progressive countries do not have to deal with.

Thanks for finding and posting this, applegrove.