Creator

• Holmes, Thomas J.

Series

• Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)

Issue number

• 368

Date created

• 2006-01

Abstract

• Unionism in the United States is contagious; it spills out of coal mines and steel mills into other establishments in the neighborhood, like hospitals and supermarkets. The geographic spillover of unionism is documented here using a newly constructed establishment level data on unionism that is rich in geographic detail. A strong connection is found between unionism of health care establishments today and proximity to unionized coal mines and steel mills from the 1950s.

Subject (JEL)

• R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: General
• J50 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: General

Keyword

• Unions
• South
• Spillover
• Contagion

Corporate Author

• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department

Publisher

• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Resource type

• Research Paper

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.368

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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• Staff Reports

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