New article out today! 'Intersectionality and labor market outcomes' b y Olga Alonso-Villar and Coral del Río Otero both. @UVIGOir. #gender #ethnicity #wages #sexualorientation #race #occupationaldsegregation.

Migrants are more likely than natives to work in occupations that are physically demanding and tend to lead to more work-related injuries and deaths. More here: 'Do immigrants improve the health of native workers?' by @Osea82 @PittEcon.

#Legalization gives #migrants greater #mobility in the labor market and geographically, access to #health and social services, and #LegalProtection: "The impact of legalizing unauthorized immigrants" by @cbansak @StLawrenceU & Sarah Pearlman @Vassar.

#ImmigrationPolicy can affect both native workers, who compete directly with immigrants for jobs, and many other population groups: 'Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women' by @FurtadoDelia @UConn. #childcare #femalelaborsupply.

If policymakers assume that married female #migrants are only secondary earners and fail to provide them with adequate support, this leads to poor labor market outcomes. Ana Ferrer @UWaterloo : 'Are married immigrant women secondary workers?'.

While #inheritances can hinder employment, they may boost labor supply if they promote #entrepreneurship. Read more in this article by Donald Cox @BostonCollege: 'Inheritance, bequests, and labor supply'.

#Tradeunion density is low in #CEE, and trade unions continue to be seen as obstacles to labor market #flexibility and #growth. However,these unions may still achieve positive results for their members -> Iga Magda @ibs_warsaw .

'Unions and investment in intangible capital' by Gabrielle Cardullo @UniGenova and @giovanni_sulis @univca: "Unions may have potentially important effects on Investment in physical capital and R&D.".

"Unions continue to affect wage rises and reduce wage inequality despite reductions in their bargaining power," says @AlexanderBryson @UCLSocRes in his article: 'Union wage effects'.

'The consequences of trade union power erosion' - #Union #density is declining in many industrialized countries. This article by John T. Addison @DUBusSchool examines the consequences of this from a macroeconomic and microeconomic perspective.

Read the full study: 'Robots Replacing Trade Unions: Novel Data and Evidence from Western Europe' - IZA DP No. 17864 by @paolo_agnolin, @massimo_anelli, Italo Colantone, and @PStanig - all @Unibocconi. #robots #automation #Europe #tradeunions .

New Opinion Piece out today: 'Robots, restructuring, and union retreat: How automation alters worker organization' by @paolo_agnolin, @massimo_anelli, Italo Colantone, and @PStanig - all @Unibocconi. #robots #automation #Europe #tradeunion.

'Collective bargaining in developing countries' by Carlos Lamarche @universityofky: Developments in Argentina show that measures to promote the decentralization of #collectivebargaining can increase #laborproductivity.

Even when employee self-selection is taken into account, high involvement #management practices generally have a favorable effect on employees. @pbockerman @uniofjyvaskyla : 'High involvement management and employee well-being'.

Providing quality #childcare, promoting a “junk food free environment” and flexible working arrangements for parents can help prevent childhood #obesity. ->.@gwencke @jlugiessen: 'Is maternal employment related to childhood obesity?'.

How can #Happiness be further increased in #TransitionCountries? Ekaterina Skoglund @LeibnizIOS tackles this question in her WoL article: 'The happiness gap between transition and non-transition countries'.

'The mortality crisis in transition economies'. This article by the late Giovanni Andrea Cornia highlights how transitioning to a higher socioeconomic level can incur significant #SocialCosts. #EasternEurope #mortality #stress #alcohol #transition.

If you liked yesterday's Opinion piece on the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) you might also like the corresponding IZA Discussion Paper - also authored by @pbockerman and @HaapanenMika, both Jyväskylä University, and Christopher Jepsen @ucddublin.

'Deindustrialisation and the post-socialist mortality crisis' - journal article by Gábor Scheiring et al. - Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2023, 47 (2), 341 - 372.

Raising legal drinking ages: An opportunity to improve European educational outcomes via @cepr_org.