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