Press Mentions
Topics Employer Market Power, Healthcare Workers, Labor Market, Labor Unions
Nonprofit Quarterly, Designing Workforce Programs with Worker Power in Mind (with S. Kahn & S. Naidu)
Topics Employer Market Power, Healthcare Workers, Labor Market, Labor Unions
Roosevelt Institute, Employer Power and Employee Skills: Understanding Workforce Training Programs in the Context of Labor Market Power (with Suresh Naidu)
Summaries
- Roosevelt Institute & Workrise webinar
- Summary site at Roosevelt Institute
- Nonprofit Quarterly op-ed: Designing workforce programs with worker power in mind
- Roosevelt Institute: Banning Noncompetes: A Groundbreaking Step for Worker Power, and What Must Come Next
Topics Employer Market Power, Healthcare Workers, Labor Market, Labor Unions
Minnesota Reformer. Franchise owners are colluding to suppress Minnesota workers’ wages: The Legislature can put a stop to it (with E. Starr)
Topics Employer Market Power, Healthcare Workers, Labor Market, Labor Unions
Briefing Book. How Can We Strengthen the Direct Care Workforce? (with G. S. Goda)
Topics Employer Market Power, Healthcare Workers, Labor Market, Labor Unions
Sojourner, A., B. Frandsen, R. Town, D. Grabowski & M. Chen (2015) Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes. ILR Review. 68(4): 771-806. [Appendix]
In Published Papers
Working Papers Press Mentions
- Hamilton Project: The Shift in Private-Sector Union Participation
- Vox.com: I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one.
Topics Employer Market Power, Healthcare Workers, Labor Market, Labor Unions
Qiu, Y. & A. Sojourner (2023) Labor-Market Concentration and Labor Compensation, ILR Review. 76(3): 475–503. Replication package & concentration measures here.
In Published Papers
Working Papers Press Mentions
- Forbes opinion: How Big Firms Keep Wages Low
- Phenomenal World: The Emerging Monopsony Consensus
- Hamilton Project: The Shift in Private-Sector Union Participation
- Brookings: Non-compete contracts: Potential justifications and the relevant evidence
- ProMarket: Regulators Should Not Change the Regulatory Environment to Include Labor Market Concentration
- Center for American Progress: The Modern Company Town
Topics Employer Market Power, Healthcare Workers, Labor Market, Labor Unions
Roosevelt Institute, The Labor Leverage Ratio: A New Measure that Signals a Worker-Driven Recovery (with E. DiVito)
Press Mentions
- Upjohn Institute: Interactive LLR site
- The Indicator: Who's the boss in today's labor market?
- Axios: This ratio shows how workers still have the upper hand
- Investopedia: Do you still have leverage in the job market? Depends on your industry
- State of Oregon Library: Oregon's Labor Leverage Ratio Shows a Slightly Looser Labor Market
- Civic Skunkworks: Trickle Down's Lost Decade
- Star Tribune: 3M laying off 1,100 at Maplewood headquarters
- Axios: Workers still have all the power
Topics Employer Market Power, Healthcare Workers, Labor Market, Labor Unions
Econofact: The Role of Unions (with B. Frandsen)
Topics Employer Market Power, Healthcare Workers, Labor Market, Labor Unions
Aaron Sojourner
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org
Senior Researcher
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
269-385-0438
sojourner@upjohn.org