Seminar – Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm competition

We provide a comprehensive causal assessment of how worker power shapes the sorting of immigrants across firms and how that subsequently influences firm performance and the careers of incumbent workers. The main takeaway of our paper is that, while aiming to protect their own members, union representation constrains firms’ ability to capitalize on immigrant-induced labor supply shifts, ultimately harming both firms and incumbent workers.

Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam, room 1.01