Check out new research brief on my forthcoming @ILRReview paper.
Workplace health & safety is the central economic issue of our nation today. Promoting workplace safety makes economic activity sustainable & unionization helps with that. #LaborDay2020
theconversation.com/unionized-work…
Here's the working paper version @iza_bonn. Peer-reviewed final version will be out @ILRReview soon.
iza.org/publications/d…
My study with Jooyoung Yang shows unionization lifts worker reporting of health & safety issues @OSHA_DOL, causing a rise in complaint-driven inspections & more violations found, cited, & penalized.
Prior work @mslater_johnson shows inspections => safety
sciencemag.org/news/2012/05/i…
Thanks to @AmandaGrittner & @mslater_johnson, I recently learned about this 2005 paper @profsheena & Amanda Pyles that develops an economic model of the worker decision to report & how labor organizations can solve the public goods aspects of reporting.
heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPag…
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