Unions as insurence: Employer–worker risk sharing and workers‘ outcomes during COVID-19

Nils Braakmann and Boris Hirsch ()
Additional contact information
Boris Hirsch: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

No 418, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

Abstract: We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces directly before the pandemic in a difference-in-differences framework. We find that unionised workers were substantially more like to remain working for their pre-COVID employer, at their pre-COVID workplace, in their pre-COVID job and to be in employment. This greater employment stability was not traded off against lower working hours or labour income.Length: 31 pages

Keywords: Unions; risk-sharing; implicit contracts; insurance effects; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 I19 J51 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Fors ... df/wp_418_Upload.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (https://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Forschungseinrichtungen/ifvwl/WorkingPapers/lue/pdf/wp_418_Upload.pdf [303 See Other]--> https://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/forschungseinrichtungen/ifvwl/workingpapers/lue/pdf/wp_418_upload.pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Unions as Insurance: Employer–Worker Risk Sharing and Workers' Outcomes during COVID-19 (2023)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lue:wpaper:418

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Wagner ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).