unionization rates. The first approach uses an event study design to analyze the impact of the adoption of RTW laws in five U … laws on industries with high unionization rates relative to industries with low unionization rates. Both approaches … indicate that RTW laws lower wages and unionization rates. Under the assumption that RTW laws only affect wages by lowering the …

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 …

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 …

It is well-documented that, since at least the early twentieth century, U.S. income inequality has varied inversely … primarily from Gallup (N ≈ 980, 000), to look at the effects of unions on inequality from 1936 to the present. First, we present …

We study the effects of the unionization of faculty at Canadian universities from 1970-2022 using an event-study design …. Using administrative data which covers the full universe of faculty salaries, we find strong evidence that unionization … increase on average by 2 to over 5 percent over the first 6 years post unionization. These effects are driven largely by gains …

Concurrent with the precipitous decline in private sector unionization over the past half century, there has been a …

This paper compares trends in male and female hourly wage inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States … between 1979 and 1998. Our main finding is that the extent and pattern of wage inequality became increasingly similar in the … particular, we argue that the much steeper decline in unionisation in the United Kingdom explains why inequality increased faster …

increase over time in the union effect on employee 'take-up' of offered insurance, and that declining unionization explains 20 …