Days not worked due to strikes and lockouts, 2023

3.5%, general strikes, and goals

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2026 State of the Workplace

Get the latest insights from state of the workplace report spanning more than 443 million hours of work activity across 1,111 organizations and 163,638 employees over three years.

Do Employers Have More Monopsony Power in Slack Labor Markets?

This article confronts monopsony theory’s predictions regarding workers’ wages with observed wage patterns over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for the years 1985 to 2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, the authors construct a time series of the labor supply elasticity to the firm and estimate its relationship to the unemployment rate. They find that firms possess more monopsony power during economic downturns. Half of this cyclicality stems from workers’ job separations being less wage driven when unemployment rises, and the other half mirrors that firms find it relatively easier to poach workers. Results show that the cyclicality is more pronounced in tight labor markets with low unemployment, and that the findings are robust to controlling for time-invariant unobserved worker or plant heterogeneity. The authors further document that cyclical changes in workers’ entry wages are of similar magnitude as those predicted under pure monopsonistic wage setting.

Handbook of Labor Economics

What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?Developments in Research Methods and their Application, Volume 4A summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, contributors cover subjects as diverse as field and laboratory experiments, program evaluation, and behavioral models. The combinations of these improved empirical findings with new models reveal how labor economists are developing new and innovative ways to measure key parameters and test important hypotheses. - Investigates recent advances in methods and models used in labor economics - Demonstrates what these new tools and techniques can accomplish - Documents how conceptual models and empirical work explain important practical issues

a simple (local) solution to the pay gap — wingolog

wingolog: article: a simple (local) solution to the pay gap

Distinguishing Labor from Work - Aaron Ross Powell

We should get rid of the former, if we can, but we should absolutely keep the latter.

When Does Worker Ownership Work? ESOPs, Law Firms, Codetermination, and Economic Democracy

Layoff University, Vol. 2: Progress Made, Lessons Learned - excellent notes

Reflections from my first month of unemployment

Anarchy and modern convenience

A major part of anarchy and socialism is the concept of anti-work. An obsession with work is a colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist construct. As such, the anti-work movement—a focus on working less overall and sharing labor more equally—is an important part of decolonization, feminism, and anti-capitalism. A common criticism of this is that reducing the amount everyone works to something like 20 hours a week instead of 40+ means we would have to give up a lot of conveniences.

Distinguishing Labor from Work · Aaron Ross Powell

We should get rid of the former, if we can, but we should absolutely keep the latter.

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Political Aspects of Full Employment

Why do capitalists hate full employment? Because it weakens their power over workers.

Inside the latest round of mass layoffs at Xbox

Multiple workers impacted by the latest job cuts at Xbox believe the decision will hamstring some studios.

Second Street | How Government Policies Affect Canadians

We investigate the real-world impact of government policy through groundbreaking research and the personal stories of everyday Canadians.