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The Impacts Of U.S. Right To Work Laws On Wages, Free Riding, And Unionization

Bono-Lunn, Dillan - 2021

This paper uses state fixed effect models and a Synthetic Control design with Current Population Survey (CPS) data to identify the impact of state Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on wages, benefits, and union status among private and public sector workers. Despite a modest effect of RTW laws on wages,...

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Do Anti-Union Policies Increase Inequality? Evidence from State Adoption of Right-to-Work Laws

Kogan, Vladimir - 2017

The distribution of income lies at the intersection of states and markets, both influencing and responding to government policy. Reflecting this reality, increasing research focuses on the political origins of inequality in the U.S. However, the literature largely assumes — rather than tests...

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The Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Business and Economic Conditions: A Multivariate Approach

Stevans, Lonnie - 2007

The 1947 Taft-Hartley amendments to the National Labor Relations Act (1935) authorized a state's right to prohibit unions from requiring a worker to pay dues, even when the worker is covered by a collective bargaining agreement. Within a short time of the amendment's passage, twelve (12) states...

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The Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Business and Economic Conditions: A Multivariate Approach

Stevans, Lonnie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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Right-to-Work Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting

Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses two complementary approaches to estimate the effect of right-to-work (RTW) laws on wages and unionization rates. The first approach uses an event study design to analyze the impact of the adoption of RTW laws in five U.S. states since 2011. The second approach relies on a...

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Labor Unions and Social Insurance

Aizawa, Naoki; Fang, Hanming; Komatsu, Katsuhiro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The United States has experienced a significant decline in labor unions over the past half-century. We examine the aggregate labor market impact of labor unions, the causes of their decline, and their welfare and distributional consequences, accounting for unions' effects on wages and employers'...

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The effect of endogenous right-to-work laws on business and economic conditions in the United States : a multivariate approach

Stevans, Lonnie K. - In: Review of law and economics : publ. in cooperation with … 5 (2009) 1, pp. 595-614

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To the promised land : Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice

Honey, Michael K. - 2018 - First edition

"We the disinherited of this land" : Kinship with the poor, 1929/ 1956 -- "We have a powerful instrument" : Rights unionism and the cold war, 1957/ 1963 -- "Northern ghettos are the prisons of forgotten men" : Labor and civil rights at the crossroads, 1964/ 1966 -- "In God's economy" :...

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The Relative Bargaining Power of Employers and Unions in the Global Information Age : A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan

Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Ellis, Benjamin - 2015

In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of American and Japanese labor law on the relative bargaining power of the labor and management within the context of the new global economy based on information technology. We begin by providing a simple economic definition of bargaining power...

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Vaulted into Victims : Preventing Further Sexual Abuse in U.S. Olympic Sports Through Unionization and Improved Governance

Edelman, Marc; Pacella, Jennifer M. - 2019

an esteemed position as the national team doctor for USA Gymnastics, the national governing body for the sport of U … abuse persisted for so long and why USA Gymnastics failed to properly detect and stop it. This Article, which is the first … scholarly piece to address the USA Gymnastics tragedy from a legal and regulatory perspective, aims to answer the above …

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