Union Burying Ground: Mortality, Mortality Inequities, and Sinking Labor Union Membership in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over the last several decades in the United States, socioeconomic life-expectancy inequities have increased 1-2 years. Declining labor-union density has fueled growing income inequities across classes and exacerbated racial income inequities. Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data, we examined the longitudinal union-mortality relationship and estimated whether declining union density has also exacerbated mortality inequities.

Methods

Our sample included respondents ages 25-66 to the 1979-2015 PSID with mortality follow-up through age 68 and year 2017. To address healthy-worker bias, we used the parametric g-formula. First, we estimated how a scenario setting all (versus none) of respondents' employed-person-years to union-member employed-person-years wou

SUBMITTER: Eisenberg-Guyot J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8338895 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature