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90,
of increase.
Skilled-Unskilled Differentials Widen
The tendency of common labor wage rates to rise at a 1
greater rate than skilled with increasing productivity has
been noted by Haber and Levinson. We have reproduced as
Table IV the "Percentage and Absolute Differentials Between'
Wages of Journeymen and Helper-Laborers" from, their study,
Labor Relations and Productivity in the Building Trades.2
This table indicates that during the years from 1907
to 1916 journeymen improved their relative position; from
1916 to 1920, however, their relative position fell sharply;
Starting about 1921 the per cent differentials are steadily
maintained until about 1935* Prom 1935 through 1952 the
relative position of the skilled trades declined continuously
and at a fast rate from a 79 per cent advantage to
only 37 per cent. During the latter part of the period
actual dollar differentials remained nearly constant but
total wages increased. Haber and Levinson summarize this
narrowing of skilled-unskilled wage differentials as
follows:
This narrowing of skilled-unskilled wage differentials
has not, of course, been confined to the construction
industry. It has, in fact, been a general phenomenon throughout most of the economy, because of
2William Haber and Harold M. Levinson, Labor Relations and Productivity In the Building Trades TAnn Arbor: Bureau of Industrial Relations, University of
■Michi gan, 1956 ),. p .. 203 . -..... - '
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| Title | A statistical study of construction productivity from 1917 to 1957. - Page 100 |
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| Full text | 90, of increase. Skilled-Unskilled Differentials Widen The tendency of common labor wage rates to rise at a 1 greater rate than skilled with increasing productivity has been noted by Haber and Levinson. We have reproduced as Table IV the "Percentage and Absolute Differentials Between' Wages of Journeymen and Helper-Laborers" from, their study, Labor Relations and Productivity in the Building Trades.2 This table indicates that during the years from 1907 to 1916 journeymen improved their relative position; from 1916 to 1920, however, their relative position fell sharply; Starting about 1921 the per cent differentials are steadily maintained until about 1935* Prom 1935 through 1952 the relative position of the skilled trades declined continuously and at a fast rate from a 79 per cent advantage to only 37 per cent. During the latter part of the period actual dollar differentials remained nearly constant but total wages increased. Haber and Levinson summarize this narrowing of skilled-unskilled wage differentials as follows: This narrowing of skilled-unskilled wage differentials has not, of course, been confined to the construction industry. It has, in fact, been a general phenomenon throughout most of the economy, because of 2William Haber and Harold M. Levinson, Labor Relations and Productivity In the Building Trades TAnn Arbor: Bureau of Industrial Relations, University of ■Michi gan, 1956 ),. p .. 203 . -..... - ' |
