IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ilo/ilowps/995331191502676.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Mortality from COVID-19 in the US did unions save lives?

Author

Listed:
  • Soares, Sergei,
  • Berg, Janine,

Abstract

This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of unionization on OSH by providing an analysis of unionization’s effects on COVID-19 mortality. It combines data from the NVSS with the CPS into a unique dataset. It finds that a 10 percentage-point increase in unionization is associated with a reduction in mortality from 26 per 100,000 workers to 24 per 100,000 workers. This means that if the United States had the union density of 35 percent that it had in 1954 instead of today’s rate of 10 percent, the COVID-19 mortality rate for working people would have fallen from 26 to 19 per 100,000..

Suggested Citation

  • Soares, Sergei, & Berg, Janine,, 2023. "Mortality from COVID-19 in the US did unions save lives?," ILO Working Papers 995331191502676, International Labour Organization.
    • Handle: RePEc:ilo:ilowps:995331191502676
    DOI: 10.54394/DXWP9706
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.54394/DXWP9706
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.54394/DXWP9706?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    mortality; COVID-19; occupational safety and health; methodology;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ilo:ilowps:995331191502676. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Vesa Sivunen (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ilounch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.