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Trade Competition and the Decline in Union Organizing: Evidence from Certification Elections / Kerwin Kofi Charles, Matthew S. Johnson, Nagisa Tadjfar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charles, Kerwin Kofi.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29464.
- NBER working paper series no. w29464
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- Summary:
- The long-term decline in U.S. workers' attempts to organize labor unions accelerated after 2000. We find that the swift rise of imports from China arising from a change in trade policy accounts for nearly all of this post-2000 acceleration: union certification elections decreased substantially among workers in manufacturing industries directly exposed to imports, but also among workers indirectly exposed through their local labor market. Consistent with a simple model of workers' decision to seek union representation, direct exposure lowered the expected wage gain from unionization, whereas indirect exposure increased the cost of job loss - both of which discourage organizing.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2021.
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