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Governors' Party Affiliation and Unions

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  • Louis†Philippe Beland
  • Bulent Unel

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Employing a regression discontinuity (RD) approach on gubernatorial elections in the United States over the last three decades, this paper investigates the causal effects of governors' party affiliation (Democrat versus Republican) on unionization of workers, and unionized workers' working hours and earnings. Surprisingly, we find no significant impact from the party affiliation of governors on union membership and union workers' labor†market outcomes.

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  • Louis†Philippe Beland & Bulent Unel, 2018. "Governors' Party Affiliation and Unions," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(2), pages 177-205, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:indres:v:57:y:2018:i:2:p:177-205
    DOI: 10.1111/irel.12206
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    1. Byungjun Yu & Saixing Zeng & Xiaohua Meng & Hanyang Ma & Daxin Sun, 2020. "Does natural environment prefer the right to the left? Governors' partisanship and corporate environmental performance," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(4), pages 1605-1616, July.
    2. Louis-Philippe Beland & Bulent Unel, 2018. "The impact of party affiliation of US governors on immigrants’ labor market outcomes," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 31(2), pages 627-670, April.
    3. Niklas Potrafke, 2017. "Government Ideology and Economic Policy-Making in the United States," CESifo Working Paper Series 6444, CESifo.
    4. Niklas Potrafke, 2018. "Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 174(1), pages 145-207, January.
    5. Nancy D. Ursel & Ligang Zhong, 2022. "Unionization and CEO turnover," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(1), pages 53-70, January.

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