| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w30098 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 30098 |
| Right-to-Work Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting | |
| Nicole Fortin; Thomas Lemieux; Neil Lloyd | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-06-06 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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 differential exposure design that exploits the differential impact of RTW 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 unionization rate, RTW can be used as an instrumental variable (IV) to estimate the causal effect of unions on wages. In our preferred specification based on the differential exposure design, the IV estimate of the effect of unions on wages is 0.35, which substantially exceeds the corresponding OLS estimate of 0.16. This large wage effect suggests that RTW may also directly affect wages due to a reduced union threat effect. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Labor Relations |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w30098 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587772 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nicole Fortin,Thomas Lemieux,Neil Lloyd. Right-to-Work Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting. 2022. |
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| w30098.pdf（845KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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