>If you read the study I linked, you'll see that in advanced economies globalization and the skill premium have had roughly the same or larger impact The paper

>If you read the study I linked, you'll see that in advanced economies globalization and the skill premium have had roughly the same or larger impact The paper you linked was not studying that. It was not measuring the impact of union density on inequality whereas the study I linked to had a methodology for measuring the two, correlating them and teasing out a causal impact. Your paper was simply going over the various issues surrounding inequality and talking about them. The other stuff you mentioned is a combination of wrong and not relevant to this topic. Incidentally, that stuff about licensing requirements being "the bane of every worker's existence" that you read about can typically be traced back to lobby institutions that are linked to Charles and David Koch (e.g. CATO). They started publishing "research" and press releases about the onerousness of stuff like hairdresser regulation in the 90s and early 00s after some of the brothers' high profile fights with the EPA. Isn't it fun to learn where your propaganda comes from and why? :)