Employer Market Power

The Guardian, Americans are more pro-union -- and anti-big business -- than at any time in decades (with Emily DiVito)
Press Mentions

UnionTrack: America Is a Pro-Union Nation Again, Support Continues to Rise

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

Press Mentions

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

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
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?
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