This study examines the early effects of deregulation on airline employees' earnings and union expenditures, broken down by craft and firm. The results of an analysis of data for the years 1972–89 generally do not support the common belief that deregulation decreased earnings, and only the results for the flight attendants' unions support the hypothesis that deregulation increased union expenditures.
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