In an international duopoly with two markets and two ports, this paper investigates the role of dockworkers …

In an international duopoly with two markets and two ports, this paper investigates the role of dockworkers …

within the port industry. Using longitudinal micro-census data we follow dock-workers over a 40 year period and examine the … job guarantees protected dock-workers' employment until their removal in 1989. A matched comparison of workers in … comparable unskilled occupations reveals that, even after job guarantees were removed, dock-workers did not fare worse than the …