Interindustry Labor Mobility and Domestic Politics -A partisan politics link Qiang Zhou Abstract: Much of the existing literature maintains that factor mobility across industries has important political economic implications but it is exogenous to political process;this paper argues that labor's mobility across industries can be endogenous to partisan politics. Based on a general equilibrium model,we predict that,when unions are decentralized, governments led by Leftist parties seek and obtain higher labor mobility than governments led by Rightist parties.However,as unions become more centralized,such distinction becomes less clear-cut.Time series cross-national analyses on OECD countries from 1960 to 1999 support this prediction and the endogenous labor mobility hypothesis. Key Words: interindustry labor mobility;domestic politics;partisanship;union centralizationInterindustry Interindustry Interindustry Interindustry Labor Mobility Mobility Mobility Mobility and Domestic Domestic Domestic Domestic Politics Politics Politics Politics - A partisan partisan partisan partisan politics politics politics politics link Qiang Zhou Abstract: Abstract: Abstract: Abstract: Much of the existing literature maintains that factor mobility across industries has important political economic implications but it is exogenous to political process; this paper argues that labor’s mobility across industries can be endogenous to partisan politics. Based on a general equilibrium model, we predict that, when unions are decentralized, governments led by Leftist parties seek and obtain higher labor mobility than governments led by Rightist parties. However, as unions become more centralized, such distinction becomes less clear-cut. Time series cross-national analyses on OECD countries from 1960 to 1999 support this prediction and the endogenous labor mobility hypothesis. Key Words: interindustry labor mobility; domestic politics; partisanship; union centralization