Determinants of Geographic Living-Cost Differentials in the United States: Comment

Hogan, Timothy D.

doi:10.2307/3146098

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“…These results extend Vedder's (2010) examination of productivity of RTW laws across different estimation strategies while integrating a procedure to adjust for the potential endogeneity of RTW laws into their analysis as in Stevans (2009). Nevertheless, this treatment of RTW is effectively at odds with Stansel and McMahon (2013) and Stansel, Torra, and McMahon (2018), as well as Cebula (1980), Hogan (1984), and other studies.…”

Section: Literature Review and Backgroundsupporting

confidence: 69%

“…This study seeks to investigate empirically the disparate timing of state manufacturing earnings and employment decline, as well as the shift among states in manufacturing earnings and manufacturing employment resulting from the implementation of right-to-work laws, which can be viewed not only as reflecting labor market freedom (Cebula, 1980(Cebula, , 1989Hogan, 1984;Reed, 2003;Vedder, 1976Vedder, , 2010Stansel, Torra, and McMahon, 2018) but also serving as a de facto exogenous public economic policy. Two parallel model specifications are estimated.…”

Section: Year Of Maximum Manufacturing Earnings As Share Of Total Earmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The results for equations (1) and 2are reported in Tables 4 and 5, respectively. The right-to-work law is reflected as a binary dummy (Cebula, 1980(Cebula, , 1989Hogan, 1984).…”

Section: Empirical Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the observations by Murphy (2020, p. 65) that a "… large empirical literature has found positive effects of economic freedom on economic outcomes, such as output and per capita growth" and by Ghosh and McCannon (2017, p. 209) that "It has been well established that economic freedom is associated with good economic outcomes," we investigate the impact of right-to-work laws, which can be viewed as a precursor to the labor market freedom indices and as a de facto public economic policy (Cebula, 1980(Cebula, , 1989Hogan, 1984;Stansel and McMahon, 2013;Stansel, Torra, and McMahon, 2018), on reduced geographical differences in manufacturing related-outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Right-to-Work Laws as Economic Freedom: Their Role in Influencing the Geographic Pattern of Manufacturing Jobs, Incomes, and Finances

Cebula

Connaughton

Swartz

2020

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A large empirical literature has found positive effects from economic freedom on economic outcomes, such as output and per capita economic growth. This study seeks to explain empirically the disparate timing of state manufacturing earnings and employment decline, as well as the shift among states in both manufacturing earnings and manufacturing employment resulting from right-to-work laws, which can be viewed as reflecting labor market freedom and thereby acting as a de facto economic policy. The results of the empirical estimations suggest a marked geographic shift of manufacturing employment and compensation in the U.S. during the 1970 to 2012 time period. The empirical estimations indicate that the regions of the country that have historically represented the manufacturing base have suffered the greatest relative losses in both employment and compensation during this period. In addition to regional location, it appears that right-to-work laws have had the effect of leveling manufacturing employment and compensation levels across the states since 1970. The data analysis suggests that, at least in part due to right-to-work laws, the manufacturing sectors of the states and regions are becoming increasingly similar over time, i.e., manufacturing activity that was once highly concentrated in the Great Lakes, Northeast, and Mideast has now converged significantly, with the outcome that there is little geographic difference in concentration among the eight BEA regions.

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Section: Literature Review and Backgroundsupporting

confidence: 69%

Section: Year Of Maximum Manufacturing Earnings As Share Of Total Earmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The results for equations (1) and 2are reported in Tables 4 and 5, respectively. The right-to-work law is reflected as a binary dummy (Cebula, 1980(Cebula, , 1989Hogan, 1984).…”

Section: Empirical Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Right-to-Work Laws as Economic Freedom: Their Role in Influencing the Geographic Pattern of Manufacturing Jobs, Incomes, and Finances

Cebula

Connaughton

Swartz

2020

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“…although there are a few exceptions (Haworth and Rasmussen, 1973;Cobas, 1978;Cebula, 1980;Ostrosky, 1983;and Hogan, 1984), the literature has essentially failed to investigate the determinants of these living-cost dif ferences.…”

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confidence: 99%