Labor Rights

Analysis for D.C. Office of the Attorney General: Economic Analysis of Incentives to Fraudulently Misclassify Employees in District of Columbia Construction
Summaries

U.S. Treasury: The State of Labor Market Competition
EPI: Comments on DOL's proposed rulemaking on employee or independent contractor classification under Fair Labor Standards Act

Press Mentions

Construction Citizen: AG Racine Releases Report on Payroll Fraud in District Construction Industry
AG Racine's testimony to U.S. House: Misclassification of Employees: Examining the Costs to Workers, Businesses, and the Economy

Benson, A., A. Sojourner, & A. Umyarov (2020) Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market. Management Science. 66(5):1802-1825
Working Papers

Mpls Fed OIGI, HCEO & IZA

Press Mentions

Minneapolis Fed The Region: In the gig economy, reputation counts
Workday Minnesota with video: Researchers draw lessons from online labor markets
IZA Newsroom (Germany): New forms of work and shady employers: How reputation can discipline the "gig economy"
- Picked up by: EU CEDEFOP's Skills Panorama
Technology Policy Institute: Research Roundup Strikes Back
Economisch Statistische Berichten (Netherlands): Reputatie als tegengas in de sjeesconomie
BuzzFeed Tech: American Labor Unions Are Falling Down on Digital Workers

Economic Policy Institute's Working Economics: American job seekers think increasing the minimum wage would be good for them

Pickens, J. and A. Sojourner (2022) Effects of Access-to-Hours and Just Cause Regulations on Labor Market Outcomes

Sojourner, A. & J. Yang (2022) Effects of Union Certification on Workplace-Safety Enforcement: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence. ILR Review. 75(2): 373-401.
Working Papers

IZA Discussion Paper 9610
Data: NLRB Elections 1962-2009 consolidating Thomas Holmes & Henry Farber data. OSHA inspections from U.S. Department of Labor.

Summaries

The Conversation: Unionized workers are more likely to assert their right to a safe and healthy workplace
- Also published in: Houston Chronicle

Press Mentions

Common Dreams: COVID-19 gag rules endanger everyone, but study shows unions make it easier to assert workplace safety rights
UnionTrack: Has the pandemic been a turning point for healthcare unions?
The Daily Poster: Amazon tries to block vote on worker safety initiative

Qui, Y., A. Sojourner, & P. Volpin (2024) M&A and Workplace Safety: Evidence from Mines

Star-Tribune: Sunday op-ed as part of pro-/con- feature on RTW

Star-Tribune: Sunday op-ed as part of pro-/con- feature on the minimum wage

Star-Tribune: The case for mandating paid sick-leave in Minneapolis

The Hill: If there are right-to-work laws, there must be right-to-invest laws

Marinescu. I., Y. Qiu, & A. Sojourner. Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
Press Mentions

Ruffini, K., A. Sojourner & A. Wozniak (2021) Who's in and who's out under workplace COVID symptom screening? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Working Papers

Minneapolis Fed

Summaries

Econofact: COVID Symptom Screening at the Workplace

Press Mentions

The Hill: Employers have critical role to prevent second wave
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank: How well do workplace COVID-19 screens work? And do they discriminate?
Tradeoffs podcast: The perils of self-reported COVID screening