Unions and the politics of inequality
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 () - 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
- Dennie Oude Nijhuis (Leiden), "Labor Unions and the politics of postwar wage compression: A comparison of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom."
- Nadja Mosimann (Geneva) and Jonas Pontusson (Geneva), “Union membership and support for redistribution: Within‐country heterogeneity.”
- Discussant: John Ahlquist (UC Sand Diego)
16.15‐18.00 Panel #4: Unions as political actors
- Michael Becher (Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse) and Konstantin Käppner (Konstanz), “Labor unions and unequal representation.”
- Philip Rathgeb (Konstanz), “Organized Labor and the Eurozone crisis.”
- Discussant: Lucio Baccaro (Geneva)
April 14 (Room Baud-Bovy 09)
9.30‐11.15 Panel #5: Union membership and voting
- Nadja Mosimann (Geneva), “Unions as agents of electoral mobilization in times of inequality.”
- Line Rennwald (Geneva) and Jonas Pontusson (Geneva), “Paper Stones revisited: Class voting, unionization and the decline of the mainstream Left.”
- Discussant: John Ahlquist (UC Sand Diego)
11.30‐12.30 Wrap‐up discussion