It is a well known fact that the extent of unionization is lower in states with Right-to-Work (RTW) laws. A framework … is developed for determining whether RTW laws actually cause a decrease in the extent of unionization or whether they … RTW laws cause a decrease in the extent of unionization.A final interesting result is that it is found that the extent of …

U.S. income inequality has varied inversely with union density over the past hundred years. But moving beyond this … examine the long-run relationship between unions and inequality. We document dramatic changes in the demographics of union … and twenty log points. We then use our data to examine the effect of unions on income inequality. Using distributional …

inequality. Changes in unionization account for one-fifth of the increase of the variance of adult male wages between 1973 and …This paper re-examines the connection between unions and wage inequality, focusing on three questions: (1) How does the …

) the difference in unionization rates between the United States and Canada. We extend earlier work on these problems by … survey conducted for the AFL-CIO, we are able to decompose changes in unionization into changes in demand and changes in … period in the relative supply of union jobs. Additionally, very little of the decline in unionization in the U.S. can be …

The dramatic decline in unionization over the last decade is investigated in the context of a supply/demand model of … employer resistance to unionization. Increased foreign and increased nonunion domestic competition (particularly in deregulated …