🚨Our new issue is out with free online access until October 31! In this issue, authors explore #worker #voice and resistance in #China, impacts of #employer policies in #Germany and the #US and child-related #earnings penalty of mothers in #France. https://t.co/y3P40ITmgT

Does easy access to #healthinsurance increase the likelihood of self-employment? Xiaotong Niu @USCBO shows that the availability and price of health insurance matters and the correlation persists even in the long run with some modifications. https://t.co/WVGtU9Sily

Why is the development of sectoral-level #bargaining uneven in different regions of #China? @EliDFriedman @cornellilr shows how diverse models of #economic #development and #unions' lack of capacity to enforce #contracts explain the difference. https://t.co/kIVwG9T8wZ

Do female #managers narrow the #gender #wage gap? Lena Hensvik #Uppsala shows that managers do not favor same-gender workers and worker sorting based on unobserved worker #skills explains the relationship between manager's gender and wage-gap. https://t.co/5q7H9HnPxl

How do #immigrants fare compared to native workers in the same workplace? Cristian Bartolucci @CollegioCA finds that immigrants receive wages that are 13% lower than native workers in the same firm. https://t.co/LTpYnpAqlz

🚨New article published: How do #techworkers organize? JS Tan @MIT, Natalia Luka @UCBerkeley and Emily Mazo @Columbia show how, for tech workers, periods of intense #workplace #social #activism precede later periods of heightened #labor activism. https://t.co/tGJ993Qsyy

How does the environment for #labor #organizing impact union #elections? Henry Farber @Princeton shows that a deteriorating environment will lead #unions not only to contest fewer elections but also focus on larger potential #bargaining units. https://t.co/1BMveEZigM

What do #professionals want in terms of #labor unions? Using #union #election reports as evidence, Rachel Aleks @ShaCenters shows that developing a #campaign #strategy unique to professional #workers' #identity is important. https://t.co/dJ9QoHHN6E

Does low wealth constrain long-distance #migration? Peter McHenry @williamandmary shows that differential wealth holdings do not explain why minority groups and the less-educated are unlikely to undertake long-distance moves. https://t.co/4Fmlu3xVHY

How does #state change its role in industrial relations? Using France as the case, Bruno Amable @PSEinfo argues that the Right reformed labor law whereas the Left relied on decentralized bargaining with the social partners. https://t.co/pNfZC1ptMM

How does #austerity impact #gender equality? Jill Rubery @ManchesterUniv shows that women face cuts in #employment opportunities in high skilled and low skilled #jobs as well as decline in publicly funded care facilities as a result of austerity measures. https://t.co/CS5C1Qybu6

Is #credit status a good signal of #worker #productivity? Andrew Weaver @MIT shows that the character-related portion of credit status is not a significant predictor of worker productivity. https://t.co/45hLXPI0X9

Where do workers shift when they lose their jobs to #automation? Giuseppe Di Giacomo and Benjamin Lerch @USI_university show that show that 8% of workers enroll in college, about 10% claim disability benefits, and nearly 40% retire early. https://t.co/ZDxwpItK97

🚨The deadline for abstract submissions to the Harry Katz conference & special issue is coming up on October 1. 📚Guest Editors: @alexjscolvin, Ariel Avgar and Danielle van Jaarsveld 📅Conference: @Cornell April 11–12, 2026 🗒️For more 👉:

Do employers prefer #RemoteJobs? Piotr Lewandowski and coauthors @ibs_warsaw show that only employers with positive views on remote work productivity and high-quality talent management value remote work in the same way workers do. https://t.co/wvvB9ZyJrB

How does increased worker #voice benefit #wages? Dylan Nelson @UofIllinois and @natewilmers @MITSloan show that workplaces using worker voice pay a small earnings premium that is attributable to increased #productivity and greater worker bargaining #power. https://t.co/GUda8La5lK

Read @f_kuriakose 's review of Max Papadantonakis' (@CSUMB) new book published by @TempleUnivPress that demonstrates how highly #skilled tech developers face #precarity due to systemic #inequities and #technological change in the #USA. https://t.co/K8vYEjqoRN

Explore Xinming Deng's (@michiganstateu) review of Ya-Wen Lei's new book @PrincetonUPress that examines China's digital development and #automation in a labor intensive context. https://t.co/B9N5NeiBcF

What is the impact of holding multiple #jobs for a long time? Johanna Muffert and Regina T. Riphahn @FAU_Germany show that beneficial long-term effects are largest for disadvantaged groups such as #women, those with low #earnings or low #education. https://t.co/sdTwtOh4tD

Read Anh Dao Truc Lam's @LER_Illinois book review of @_ericblanc 's @RU_SMLR new book @ucpress that argues how worker-to-worker #unionism led to a resurgence of the labor movement in the United States in recent times. https://t.co/bY8LKDEmrm