Jake Rosenfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 121697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jake Rosenfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jake |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenfeld |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENFELD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Pay talk in contemporary workplaces
Drawing on a unique survey of US workers with information about their employers' policies on pay discussions and whether workers engage in such talk with their coworkers, we provide the most comprehensive investigation into pay talk in workplaces to date. Unlike existing treatments, we focus on core organizational and relational factors that influence whether workers talk about pay. We theorize pay talk as a challenge to managerial discretion, an…
US Labor Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding Laborism Without Labor
In recent years, labor studies has flourished even as labor unions in the United States have continued their long-term downward trajectory. One strain of this research has situated the labor movement, and its decline, at the center of economic inequality's rise in the United States. Another has explored the labor movement's interconnections with political dynamics in the contemporary United States, including how labor's demise has reshaped the po…
What do government unions do? Public sector unions and nonunion wages, 1977-2015
Unions and Nonunion Pay in the United States, 1977-2015
We provide the most extensive investigation into the connection between union power and nonunion worker pay to date. Leveraging nearly four decades of Current Population Survey (CPS) data on millions of U.S. workers, we test whether private sector union density, measured at the occupation and occupation region levels, helps raise average wages among unorganized private sector workers. We find stable and substantively large positive effects of pri…
Don’t ask or tell: Pay secrecy policies in U.S. workplaces
Response to Kathleen Thelen’s review of What Unions No Longer Do
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Power of Transparency: Evidence from a British Workplace Survey
Does the dissemination of organizational financial information shift power dynamics within workplaces, as evidenced by increasing workers' wages? That is the core question of this investigation. We utilize the 2004 and 2011 series of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) to test whether employees who report that their managers disclose workplace financial data earn more than otherwise similar workers not privy to such informati…
What Unions No Longer Do
From wages to elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. Today, the only thing big about Big Labor is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the repercussions of labor's collapse, particularly in the battle against inequality.
Immigration, Organization, and the Great Recession: Structural Change or Continuity
Catron’s comment extends our 2009 ASR article, “Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007,” by analyzing CPS data through the Great Recession. He finds that Hispanic immigrants’ odds of union membership declined relative to nonimmigrant whites between 2007 and 2009, and that certain Hispanic immigrant subcategories displayed increased odds of leaving union jobs during the recent recession. Catron interprets these results as…
Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers
Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States
Why have African-American private-sector unionization rates surpassed those of white workers for decades, and how has private-sector union decline exacerbated black-white wage inequality? Using data from the Current Population Survey (1973-2007), the authors show that African-Americans join unions for protection against discriminatory treatment in nonunion sectors. A model-predicted wage series also shows that, among women, black-white weekly wag…
Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34 to 8 percent for men and from 16 to 6 percent for women. During this period, inequality in hourly wages increased by over 40 percent. We report a decomposition, relating rising inequality to the union wage distribution’s shrinking weight. We argue that unions helped institutionalize norms of equity, reducing the dispersion of nonunion wages in highly unionize…
Economic Determinants of Voting in an Era of Union Decline
Objective. The objective of this article is to test competing hypotheses regarding union vote effects by economic sector. Overlooked in existing research on political participation and the labor movement is de-unionization's sectoral dimension: declining union rolls is a private-sector phenomenon. The sectoral dimension of union decline carries important political consequences if the influence of unions on voter turnout varies by sector. Method. …
The meaning of poverty' and contemporary quantitative poverty research1
the study of poverty has not developed theoretically during the course of this century' (Townsend 2010 [1962]: 93 [218]). During the postwar period, policymakers and social scientists alike began to believe that the problem of poverty was nearly solved (Bradshaw 2000). The twin engines of welfare state expansion coupled with economic growth would cushion the experience of economic marginality, while rising living standards should ensure a more en…
Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007
Prior research finds that minority populations in the United States secure union employment as part of the process of economic incorporation. Yet little work systematically tests whether this pattern holds for the nation's largest minority, Hispanics, during recent decades of union decline. After juxtaposing traditional labor market position theories of unionization with solidaristic accounts, we use 1973 to 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS) d…
Widening the gap: The effect of declining unionization on managerial and worker pay, 1983–2000
Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy
Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States
Why have African-American private-sector unionization rates surpassed those of white workers for decades, and how has private-sector union decline exacerbated black-white wage inequality? Using data from the Current Population Survey (1973-2007), the authors show that African-Americans join unions for protection against discriminatory treatment in nonunion sectors. A model-predicted wage series also shows that, among women, black-white weekly wag…
Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007
Prior research finds that minority populations in the United States secure union employment as part of the process of economic incorporation. Yet little work systematically tests whether this pattern holds for the nation's largest minority, Hispanics, during recent decades of union decline. After juxtaposing traditional labor market position theories of unionization with solidaristic accounts, we use 1973 to 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS) d…
US Labor Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding Laborism Without Labor
In recent years, labor studies has flourished even as labor unions in the United States have continued their long-term downward trajectory. One strain of this research has situated the labor movement, and its decline, at the center of economic inequality's rise in the United States. Another has explored the labor movement's interconnections with political dynamics in the contemporary United States, including how labor's demise has reshaped the po…
The Power of Transparency: Evidence from a British Workplace Survey
Does the dissemination of organizational financial information shift power dynamics within workplaces, as evidenced by increasing workers' wages? That is the core question of this investigation. We utilize the 2004 and 2011 series of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) to test whether employees who report that their managers disclose workplace financial data earn more than otherwise similar workers not privy to such informati…
Economic Determinants of Voting in an Era of Union Decline
Objective. The objective of this article is to test competing hypotheses regarding union vote effects by economic sector. Overlooked in existing research on political participation and the labor movement is de-unionization's sectoral dimension: declining union rolls is a private-sector phenomenon. The sectoral dimension of union decline carries important political consequences if the influence of unions on voter turnout varies by sector. Method. …
Unions and Nonunion Pay in the United States, 1977-2015
We provide the most extensive investigation into the connection between union power and nonunion worker pay to date. Leveraging nearly four decades of Current Population Survey (CPS) data on millions of U.S. workers, we test whether private sector union density, measured at the occupation and occupation region levels, helps raise average wages among unorganized private sector workers. We find stable and substantively large positive effects of pri…
Widening the gap: The effect of declining unionization on managerial and worker pay, 1983–2000
The meaning of poverty' and contemporary quantitative poverty research1
the study of poverty has not developed theoretically during the course of this century' (Townsend 2010 [1962]: 93 [218]). During the postwar period, policymakers and social scientists alike began to believe that the problem of poverty was nearly solved (Bradshaw 2000). The twin engines of welfare state expansion coupled with economic growth would cushion the experience of economic marginality, while rising living standards should ensure a more en…
What do government unions do? Public sector unions and nonunion wages, 1977-2015
Don’t ask or tell: Pay secrecy policies in U.S. workplaces
Widening the gap: The effect of declining unionization on managerial and worker pay, 1983–2000
Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy
Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007
Prior research finds that minority populations in the United States secure union employment as part of the process of economic incorporation. Yet little work systematically tests whether this pattern holds for the nation's largest minority, Hispanics, during recent decades of union decline. After juxtaposing traditional labor market position theories of unionization with solidaristic accounts, we use 1973 to 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS) d…
Economic Determinants of Voting in an Era of Union Decline
Objective. The objective of this article is to test competing hypotheses regarding union vote effects by economic sector. Overlooked in existing research on political participation and the labor movement is de-unionization's sectoral dimension: declining union rolls is a private-sector phenomenon. The sectoral dimension of union decline carries important political consequences if the influence of unions on voter turnout varies by sector. Method. …
The meaning of poverty' and contemporary quantitative poverty research1
the study of poverty has not developed theoretically during the course of this century' (Townsend 2010 [1962]: 93 [218]). During the postwar period, policymakers and social scientists alike began to believe that the problem of poverty was nearly solved (Bradshaw 2000). The twin engines of welfare state expansion coupled with economic growth would cushion the experience of economic marginality, while rising living standards should ensure a more en…
Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
From 1973 to 2007, private sector union membership in the United States declined from 34 to 8 percent for men and from 16 to 6 percent for women. During this period, inequality in hourly wages increased by over 40 percent. We report a decomposition, relating rising inequality to the union wage distribution’s shrinking weight. We argue that unions helped institutionalize norms of equity, reducing the dispersion of nonunion wages in highly unionize…
Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers
Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States
Why have African-American private-sector unionization rates surpassed those of white workers for decades, and how has private-sector union decline exacerbated black-white wage inequality? Using data from the Current Population Survey (1973-2007), the authors show that African-Americans join unions for protection against discriminatory treatment in nonunion sectors. A model-predicted wage series also shows that, among women, black-white weekly wag…
Immigration, Organization, and the Great Recession: Structural Change or Continuity
Catron’s comment extends our 2009 ASR article, “Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007,” by analyzing CPS data through the Great Recession. He finds that Hispanic immigrants’ odds of union membership declined relative to nonimmigrant whites between 2007 and 2009, and that certain Hispanic immigrant subcategories displayed increased odds of leaving union jobs during the recent recession. Catron interprets these results as…
What Unions No Longer Do
From wages to elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. Today, the only thing big about Big Labor is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the repercussions of labor's collapse, particularly in the battle against inequality.
Response to Kathleen Thelen’s review of What Unions No Longer Do
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Power of Transparency: Evidence from a British Workplace Survey
Does the dissemination of organizational financial information shift power dynamics within workplaces, as evidenced by increasing workers' wages? That is the core question of this investigation. We utilize the 2004 and 2011 series of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) to test whether employees who report that their managers disclose workplace financial data earn more than otherwise similar workers not privy to such informati…
Don’t ask or tell: Pay secrecy policies in U.S. workplaces
Unions and Nonunion Pay in the United States, 1977-2015
We provide the most extensive investigation into the connection between union power and nonunion worker pay to date. Leveraging nearly four decades of Current Population Survey (CPS) data on millions of U.S. workers, we test whether private sector union density, measured at the occupation and occupation region levels, helps raise average wages among unorganized private sector workers. We find stable and substantively large positive effects of pri…
US Labor Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding Laborism Without Labor
In recent years, labor studies has flourished even as labor unions in the United States have continued their long-term downward trajectory. One strain of this research has situated the labor movement, and its decline, at the center of economic inequality's rise in the United States. Another has explored the labor movement's interconnections with political dynamics in the contemporary United States, including how labor's demise has reshaped the po…
What do government unions do? Public sector unions and nonunion wages, 1977-2015
Pay talk in contemporary workplaces
Drawing on a unique survey of US workers with information about their employers' policies on pay discussions and whether workers engage in such talk with their coworkers, we provide the most comprehensive investigation into pay talk in workplaces to date. Unlike existing treatments, we focus on core organizational and relational factors that influence whether workers talk about pay. We theorize pay talk as a challenge to managerial discretion, an…
Economics (14 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (13 works) · Labour economics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)