Publication type
Research Paper
Series Number
15893
Series
IZA Discussion Papers
Authors
Publication date
January 15, 2023
Summary:
We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces directly before the pandemic in a difference-in-differences framework. We find that unionised workers were substantially more like to remain working for their pre-COVID employer, at their pre-COVID workplace, in their pre-COVID job and to be in employment. This greater employment stability was not traded off against lower working hours or labour income.
ISSN
23659793
Subjects
Link
https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/15893
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