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Do Immigrants Have Lower Unionization Propensities than Natives?
Author(s) -
FUNKHOUSER EDWARD
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1993.tb01030.x
Subject(s) - immigration , demographic economics , current population survey , economics , population , labour economics , political science , sociology , demography , law
Using a unique source of data‐the April 1983 Current Population Survey‐this paper examines unionization behavior by nativity. The results indicate that the unionization propensity of immigrants is similar to that of natives, even when controlling for individual, regional, and industrial characteristics. The explanation lies in the lower unionization propensity of all recent entrants to the U.S. labor force, whether immigrant or native.