
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
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)
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
- The Indicator: Who's the boss in today's labor market?
- 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