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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: AJS. 2012 Mar;117(5):1460–1502. doi: 10.1086/663673

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Counterfactual estimates of unionization and racial wage inequality in the private sector, 1973–2007. Data for 1973–81 come from the CPS-May files; data for 1983–2007 come from the CPS-MORG files. Estimates are based on the cross-sectional wage premium models presented in table 3. The inequality series was generated by subtracting the model-predicted wage series from the fixed unionization series and dividing by the fixed unionization series. The y axis captures the percentage point reduction in inequality had no deunionization occurred. See the text and the data appendix for further details.