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dc.contributor.authorDodini, Samuel
dc.contributor.authorWillén, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorZhu, Julia Li
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-03T10:07:46Z
dc.date.available2024-01-03T10:07:46Z
dc.date.issued2023-12
dc.identifier.issn0804-6824
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3109494
dc.description.abstractWe examine if unions narrow or widen labor market gaps between natives and immigrants. We do so by combining rich Norwegian employer-employee matched register data with exogenous variation in union membership obtained through national government policies that differentially shifted the cost to workers to join a union. While union membership significantly improves the wages of natives, its positive effects diminish substantially for Western immigrants and disappear almost entirely for non-Western immigrants. The effect of unions on native wages, and the role of unions in augmenting the native-immigrant wage gap, is nonexistent in competitive labor markets while it is substantial in markets characterized by a high degree of labor concentration. This implies that unions act as a countervailing force to employer power in imperfect markets and can ameliorate the negative labor market effects of labor market concentration, but only for natives. Using unions as a means to empower workers and solve market failures caused by imperfect competition in the labor market, therefore, is likely to lead to a significant increase in societal inequality.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherInstitutt for samfunnsøkonomien_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDP SAM;24/2023
dc.subjectUnionsen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectInequalityen_US
dc.titleThe Role of Labor Unions in Immigrant Integrationen_US
dc.typeWorking paperen_US
dc.subject.nsiSamfunnsvitenskapen_US
dc.source.pagenumber61en_US
dc.relation.projectNorges Forskningsråd: 262675en_US


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