Partisanship, Union Centralization and Mobility

This book analyzes the relationship between the partisanship of governments
and the corresponding levels of interindustry labor mobility (ILM). From a
general equilibrium model, the book shows that high levels of ILM induce
greater class solidarity among labor owners while weakening the solidarity
among capital owners. The reverse holds for low levels of ILM […]. The book
develops and tests a series of conditional hypotheses, and finds that Left
governments will be associated with higher levels of ILM than Right
governments when the level of domestic union centralization is low. It argues
and shows that one mechanism through which partisan governments can cause the
changes of interindustry labor mobility levels is the manipulation of certain
labor market policies.