Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240906 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] ILR Review [ISSN:] 2162-271X [Volume:] 75 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Sage [Place:] Thousand Oaks, CA [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 891-917
Publisher: 
Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA
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 (<50% of median in current year) and anchored (<50% of median in 1976) poverty. Both union membership and state union density have statistically and substantively significant negative relationships with relative and anchored working and working-aged poverty. Household union membership and state union density significantly negatively interact, augmenting the poverty-reducing effects of each. Higher state union density spills over to reduce poverty among non-union households, and there is no evidence that higher state union density worsens poverty for non-union households or undermines employment.
Subjects: 
unionization
poverty
labor union
longitudinal
working poverty
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