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- Title
How Right-To-Work Laws Affect Wages.
- Authors
Robert Reed, W.
- Abstract
I examine the wage effects of Right-To-Work (RTW). Using state-level data, I estimate that, ceteris paribus, RTW states have average wages that are significantly higher than non-RTW states. This result is robust is across a wide variety of specifications. An important distinctive of this study is that it controls for state economic conditions at the time states adopted RTW. States that adopted RTW were generally poorer than other states. Failure to control for these initial conditions may be the reason that previous studies have not identified a positive wage impact for RTW.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WAGES; LABOR costs; RIGHT-to-work laws; LABOR laws; RESEARCH
- Publication
Journal of Labor Research, 2003, Vol 24, Issue 4, p713
- ISSN
0195-3613
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12122-003-1022-1