Events

Unions and the politics of inequality

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Location: University of Geneva

April 13 (Room 6220, Uni Mail)

9.00‐9.15, Introduction

9.15‐10.15 Panel #1: Identifying union effects with panel data

  • Sinisa Hadziabdic (Geneva) and Lucio Baccaro (Geneva), “Selection, anticipation or molding?  Union effects on political attitudes.”
    For a copy of the paper, please contact Sinisa Hadziabic (Sinisa.Hadziabdic(at)unige.ch)
  • Discussant: Jonas Pontusson (Geneva)


10.30‐13.00
Panel #2:Unionization as an outcome

  • John Ahlquist (UC Sand Diego), "Using the China Shock to learn about unionization and using unionization to learn about the China Shock."
  • Magnus Rasmussen (Institute for Social Research, Oslo), "Organizing immigrants: Organized labor in the Age of Migration."
  • Henning Finseeras (Institute for Social Research, Oslo), “The Impact of Labour Immigration on Union Density.”
  • Discussant: Lucio Baccaro (Geneva)


14.15‐16.00
Panel #3: Union organization, distributive norms and policy preferences


16.15‐18.00
Panel #4: Unions as political actors

 

April 14 (Room Baud-Bovy 09)

9.30‐11.15
Panel #5: Union membership and voting


11.30‐12.30
Wrap‐up discussion