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The Authors Reply

Year: 2020

Type: letter

Abstract: We thank Dr. Wels for his thoughtful comments (1) on our article (2). Dr. Wels raises several concerns about our analyses; we respond to each below. First, Dr. Wels argues that our use of a union-membership exposure rather than a union-contract-coverage exposure is problematic because union contracts benefit not only contract-covered union members but also contract-covered employees who are not union members. While Dr. Wels’s argument is reasonable in theory, as we noted in the article (2), US-based research suggests that using union membership as an exposure is preferable to using union-contract coverage because estimated...

Source: American Journal of Epidemiology

DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaa279

Authors: Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot, Stephen J Mooney, Wendy E Barrington, Anjum Hajat

Institutions: Columbia University, University of Washington, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center

Language: English

Topic: Labor Movements and Unions

Subfield: Public Administration

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Mental Health

Awards: The role of precarious work in the production of health disparities in older ages, Research Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology

OpenAlex ID: W3113432944

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