Right-to-Work Laws: A Brief Review

Gondhalekar, Vijay; Kessler, Lara

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“…5 As way of another example, consider the role of union density (which is part of the EFNA) and right to work laws (RTW) which prohibit making union membership a prerequisite for employment in American states with such laws. The literature is unable to find a clear effect of such laws on inequality within states (Gondhalekar and Kessler, 2021). For example, using a synthetic control method, Jordan et al (2021) found that RTW laws (which prohibit making union membership a prerequisite for employment) had no effect on income inequality within states.…”

Section: Economic Freedom and Income Mobility 21 Connecting Economic ...mentioning

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Economic freedom improves income mobility: evidence from Canadian provinces, 1982–2018

Dean

Geloso

2021

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Economic freedom is robustly associated with income growth, but does this association extend to the poorest in a society? In this paper, we employ Canada's longitudinal cohorts of income mobility between 1982 and 2018 to answer this question. We find that economic freedom, as measured by the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of North America (EFNA) index, is positively associated with multiple measures of income mobility for people in the lowest income deciles, including (a) absolute income gain; (b) the percentage of people with rising income; and (c) average decile mobility. For the overall population, economic freedom has weaker effects.

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Section: Economic Freedom and Income Mobility 21 Connecting Economic ...mentioning

confidence: 99%