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Crain, Marion G.; Inazu, John D. - 2015

Organized labor’s judicial, political, and public image is often associated with violence and anarchy. These descriptions are not spun out of whole cloth: violent uprisings that challenged the political and economic order were common in the early days of American labor unionism. But the...

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Transnational migration and international labor solidarity : on migrant union members' impact on unions' cross-border work

Jungehülsing, Jenny - 2018

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Endogenous technology, matching, and labor unions : does low-skilled immigration affect the technological alignment of the host country?

Cords, Dario - 2017

In recent years, Germany and other European countries face the strongest immigration flow in their history. Experts unanimously agree that one of the core factors of a successful social integration is the labor market participation of the new arrivals. This paper investigates the impact of...

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Labour immigration and union strength

Finseraas, Henning; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål - 2018

To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...

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Immigration, Race, and Labor : Unionization and Wages in the Canadian Labor Market

Reitz, Jeffrey G.; Verma, Anil - 2004

In Canada, most racial minorities have lower rates of unionization than do members of the majority workforce. Data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (N = 32,634) show that racial minority immigrants assimilate into unionization over time. However, unionization reduces net minority...

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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022

We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their … certified migrants (10.2 and 6.6 log points), reflecting a more intense screening of migrant than native workers. The … representation of migrants among licensed (but not certified or unionized) workers is 14% lower than that of natives. This implies a …

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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022

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Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm dynamics

Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander - 2024

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets - immigrants and unions - to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions...

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Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm dynamics

Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander - 2024

This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions —to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across ﬁrms, and how that subsequently inﬂuences the performance of ﬁrms and the careers of incumbent workers. First,...

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Unionizing Subcontracted Labor

Shamir, Hila - 2018

Subcontracting — the practice of using intermediaries to contract workers, whether through temp agencies, manpower agencies, franchise, or other multilayered contracting — is an increasingly popular pattern of employment worldwide. Whether justified from a business perspective or not,...

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