Decades of research across several disciplines have produced substantial evidence that
labor unions, on balance, reduce economic disparities. But unions are complicated …

Extensive economic research demonstrates correlations between unions with wages,
income inequality, health insurance, discrimination, and other factors. Corresponding …

0Today the only thing big about “Big Labor” is its problems. By the early 1970s, or ga nized
labor had already begun its decades-long decline, but still nearly a quarter of all private …

We review the literature on recent changes to US employment relationships, focusing on the
causes of those changes and their consequences for inequality. The US employment model …

From reviews of previous editions—" The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the
most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their …

The State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy
Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment …

Based on a survey of 1,268 firms in 12 cities, this article empirically studies unions' effects on
worker welfare in China. Regressions carried out on a rich set of specifications show that …

We examine the effects of the most durable employer health insurance mandate in the
United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using Current Population Survey data …

This paper empirically studies union effects on the performance of, and employment
relations in, China's private enterprises. The study finds a positive and statistically significant …

This paper uses linked data on over 1,500 workplaces and 20,000 individuals from the 1998
British Workplace Employee Relations Survey to analyze the relationship between labor …