Publication Archive

Rowing Against the Tide: The Struggle to Raise Union Density in a Hostile Environment

Posted: Wednesday, 26 April 2006

Canada is one of very few advanced industrial countries in which union density is not in sharp decline, and in which union membership is still growing in terms of absolute numbers. Canadian unions continue to make gains for their members and for all worker… Read More

The Doubling of US Executive Pay

Posted: Wednesday, 26 April 2006

A study by Lucian Bebchuk of Harvard Law School and Yaniv Grinstein published in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy (Vol 21, #2, 2005) carefully examines the growth of US top executive pay between 1993 and 2003. The database is made up of the 1,500 publi… Read More

The Rising Income Share of the Corporate Elite: Why Wages Have Become Disconnected from Productivity

Posted: Wednesday, 26 April 2006

An important paper by leading US economist Robert Gordon answers the puzzle of why wages for the majority of US workers have stagnated even as productivity (output per worker) has been rising rapidly. (Robert Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker "Where Did the Product… Read More