Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Workers

John Schmitt, Hye-Jin Rho and Nicole Woo

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Abstract: Asian Pacific American (APA) workers are, with Latinos, the fastest growing group in the U.S. workforce and in organized labor. Since the late 1980s, APA workers have seen their representation in the ranks of U.S. unions almost double, from about 2.5 percent of all union workers in 1989 to about 4.6 percent in 2008. This report uses national data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to show that unionization raises the wages of the typical APA worker by 9 percent compared to their non-union peers. The study goes on to show that unionization also increases the likelihood that an APA worker will have health insurance and a pension.

Keywords: unions; Asian; wages; benefits; pension (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J J1 J3 J31 J32 J41 J5 J58 J6 J68 J88 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2009-11
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