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 …

lower tail inequality in the 90s can be related to de-unionization. Finally, fluctuations in relative supply play an …. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the … top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage inequality started to rise also at the bottom of the distribution. Hence …