Labor Unions and American Poverty

Tom VanHeuvelen and David Brady

ILR Review, 2022, vol. 75, issue 4, 891-917

Abstract: American poverty research largely neglects labor unions. The authors use individual-level panel data, incorporate both household union membership and state-level union density, and analyze both working poverty and working-aged poverty (among households led by 18- to 64-year-olds). They estimate three-way fixed effects (person, year, and state) and fixed-effects individual slopes models on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1976–2015. They exploit the higher quality income data in the Cross-National Equivalent File—an extension of the PSID—to measure relative (

Keywords: unionization; poverty; labor union; longitudinal; working poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/00197939211014855

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