Alexander Mosthaf, Thorsten Schank, Stefan Schwarz
{"title":"Do supplementary jobs for welfare recipients increase the chance of welfare exit? Evidence from Germany","authors":"Alexander Mosthaf, Thorsten Schank, Stefan Schwarz","doi":"10.1111/irel.12339","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12339","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study “Labour Market and Social Security” (PASS) for the years 2006–2014 to analyze the impact of these supplementary jobs on the chances of welfare exit. Dynamic multinomial logit models controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and endogenous initial conditions reveal that full-time employed men and women are more likely to exit welfare into employment than their non-employed counterparts. For supplementary part-time jobs, however, we find no or (only in some specifications for men) much smaller stepping stone effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 3","pages":"291-324"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12339","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135343278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politicized shopping in the gig economy: Retaliation and solidarity on the “other side” of the app","authors":"Michael David Maffie","doi":"10.1111/irel.12346","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12346","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this mixed-methods article, the author investigates how gig workers behave when they become consumers of these products. The author finds that workers engage in politicized shopping – where they order from platform companies with comparably better labor standards – both to retaliate against companies with substandard labor practices and support their fellow gig workers. By examining worker behavior on the “other side” of the platform, this article expands our understanding politicized shopping in this emerging area of work.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 3","pages":"343-367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135425092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Still part of the game—corporatism and political exchanges in two small states","authors":"Mikkel Mailand","doi":"10.1111/irel.12347","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12347","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study of Danish and Dutch work and welfare policies since the Great Recession questions the dominant picture of trade unions as being too weak and irrelevant for tripartite regulation. The frequency of tripartite agreements has not decreased, and social partners are still able to obtain important concessions. In addition to well-described resources, the article shows that trade unions and employers' organizations offer governments financial resources and access to workplaces in political exchanges, which helps explain corporatist resilience. Only limited support was found for well-known drivers other than economic crises as explanations for changes over time in tripartism.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 3","pages":"368-388"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135425916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vocational training during the COVID-19 pandemic: Under what conditions does the public support state subsidies for training firms?","authors":"Anna Heusler, Monika Senghaas","doi":"10.1111/irel.12345","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents novel empirical findings on whether and under what conditions the public supports apprenticeship subsidies paid to training firms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the literature on justice research and deservingness theory, we construct an experimental factorial survey among individuals from German administrative records. The findings suggest selective support targeting the neediest firms, for example, small firms and firms strongly affected economically. Furthermore, we find that perceived deservingness is higher for firms offering apprenticeships in an area of skill shortage. Our results furthermore suggest that personal characteristics impact the assessment of the distribution of state support.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 3","pages":"325-342"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126643981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Which side are you on?” A historical study of union membership composition in seven Western countries","authors":"Cyprien Batut, Ulysse Lojkine, Paolo Santini","doi":"10.1111/irel.12342","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12342","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study uses surveys from the past 60 years to study union membership in Denmark, France, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We first revisit aggregate union densities finding that, for France and Italy, they were at times under- and overestimated, respectively. Second, we document the evolution of the composition of union membership in terms of gender, occupation, education, and sector. Different stylized facts emerge for different groups of countries. These facts do not lend support to the composition-based theory that attributes deunionization to deindustrialization, nor to the technological theory that predicts the exit of the high-skilled from unions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 2","pages":"205-287"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127840028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect men's and women's returns to unionization?","authors":"Eunice S. Han","doi":"10.1111/irel.12343","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12343","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using data from the Current Population Survey for the period 2015 to 2021, I study union-nonunion differences in employment, wages and other terms and conditions before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyses are run separately for men and women. I find that, compared to non-union workers, union workers were better able to retain employment, less likely to do telework, and more likely to receive pay for the hours they did not work during the pandemic. These patterns were more evident for female workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 2","pages":"172-204"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122360537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unions as insurance: Workplace unionization and workers' outcomes during COVID-19","authors":"Nils Braakmann, Boris Hirsch","doi":"10.1111/irel.12344","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12344","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate to what extent workplace unionization protects workers from external shocks by preventing involuntary job separations. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionized and non-unionized workplaces directly before the pandemic in a difference-in-differences framework. We find that unionized workers were substantially more likely to remain working for their pre-COVID employer and to be in employment. This greater employment stability was not traded off against lower working hours or labor income.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 2","pages":"152-171"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122019917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some facts about concentrated labor markets in the United States","authors":"Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Matthew Dey","doi":"10.1111/irel.12341","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12341","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We estimate employer concentration by occupation in the United States from 2003 to 2018. Findings include the following: (1) concentration is a characteristic of small labor markets; (2) patterns of concentrated employment differ from patterns of employment in very large employers, with overlap largely in the public sector; (3) the public sector and hospital industry play prominent roles in concentrated employment; (4) more concentrated labor markets are associated with slightly lower wages, only within the private sector.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 2","pages":"132-151"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131773894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power resources for disempowered workers? Re-conceptualizing the power and potential of consumers in app-based food delivery","authors":"Caleb Goods, Alex Veen, Tom Barratt, Brett Smith","doi":"10.1111/irel.12340","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12340","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Consumers play an integral role in the labor process of app-based food delivery services through their consumption behaviors and performance ratings of workers. Some therefore see them as a potential ally of workers, whereas others view them as beholden by capital. This quantitative study uses power resource theory and a Rasch model to appraise consumers' understandings and attitudes toward working conditions in this segment of the “gig” economy. Drawing on two surveys of 1820 Australian consumers, we find that consumers are a potential yet heterogenous coalitional power resource who may align with workers on certain entitlements like minimum wages.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 2","pages":"107-131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/irel.12340","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123555486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Worker Congresses in China: Do they matter?","authors":"Morley K. Gunderson, Byron Y. Lee, Hui Wang","doi":"10.1111/irel.12336","DOIUrl":"10.1111/irel.12336","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We use a survey of privately-owned enterprises spanning the years 2006–2014 and estimate effects of Worker Congresses on worker welfare outcomes. We find that Congresses by themselves had positive effects on all outcomes except for wages. Firms with <i>both</i> a Congress <i>and</i> a union had large and positive effects on all outcomes reflecting the sum of their separate individual effects, suggesting that they were not substitute institutions but rather were complementary in an additive fashion.</p>","PeriodicalId":47700,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Relations","volume":"63 1","pages":"43-58"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133752052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}