Unions as insurance: Workplace unionization and workers' outcomes during COVID-19

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Unions as insurance: Workplace unionization and workers' outcomes during COVID-19. / Braakmann, Nils; Hirsch, Boris.
In: Industrial Relations, Vol. 63, No. 2, 04.2024, p. 152-171.

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title = "Unions as insurance: Workplace unionization and workers' outcomes during COVID-19",
abstract = "We investigate to what extent workplace unionization protects workers from external shocks by preventing involuntary job separations. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionized and non-unionized workplaces directly before the pandemic in a difference-in-differences framework. We find that unionized workers were substantially more likely to remain working for their pre-COVID employer and to be in employment. This greater employment stability was not traded off against lower working hours or labor income.",
keywords = "Economics",
author = "Nils Braakmann and Boris Hirsch",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The Authors. Industrial Relations published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Regents of the University of California (RUC).",
year = "2024",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1111/irel.12344",
language = "English",
volume = "63",
pages = "152--171",
journal = "Industrial Relations",
issn = "0019-8676",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.",
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