Do right to work laws worsen income inequality? Evidence from the last five decades
There is an ongoing debate about whether changes in labor regulations such as Right to Work (RTW) laws are contributing to the rising trend of income inequality in the U.S. We adopt Synthetic Control Method (SCM) for comparative case study to examine the impact of a state’s adoption of RTW law on it...
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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
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| author | Munasib, Abdul Jordan, Jeffrey L. Mathur, Aparna Roy, Devesh |
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| description | There is an ongoing debate about whether changes in labor regulations such as Right to Work (RTW) laws are contributing to the rising trend of income inequality in the U.S. We adopt Synthetic Control Method (SCM) for comparative case study to examine the impact of a state’s adoption of RTW law on its income inequality. We use a wide range of inequality measures for Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, states that enacted RTW between the 1960s and the 2000s. We find that RTW did not impact income inequality in these states. This result is underpinned by additional finding of a lack of impact of RTW on unionization and investment. Munasib, Abdul; Jordan, Jeffrey L.; Mathur, Aparna; Roy, Devesh |
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| spelling | CGSpace1513442024-11-13T12:23:08Z Do right to work laws worsen income inequality? Evidence from the last five decades Munasib, Abdul Jordan, Jeffrey L. Mathur, Aparna Roy, Devesh income trade unions synthetic control labour wages inequality There is an ongoing debate about whether changes in labor regulations such as Right to Work (RTW) laws are contributing to the rising trend of income inequality in the U.S. We adopt Synthetic Control Method (SCM) for comparative case study to examine the impact of a state’s adoption of RTW law on its income inequality. We use a wide range of inequality measures for Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, states that enacted RTW between the 1960s and the 2000s. We find that RTW did not impact income inequality in these states. This result is underpinned by additional finding of a lack of impact of RTW on unionization and investment. Munasib, Abdul; Jordan, Jeffrey L.; Mathur, Aparna; Roy, Devesh 2015-06-05 2024-08-01T02:56:46Z 2024-08-01T02:56:46Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151344 en Open Access Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Munasib, Abdul; Jordan, Jeffrey L.; Mathur, Aparna; and Roy, Devesh. 2015. Do right to work laws worsen income inequality? Evidence from the last five decades. Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the 2015 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association & Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 26-28, 2015. Milwaukee, WI, USA: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). https://purl.umn.edu/205341 |
| spellingShingle | income trade unions synthetic control labour wages inequality Munasib, Abdul Jordan, Jeffrey L. Mathur, Aparna Roy, Devesh Do right to work laws worsen income inequality? Evidence from the last five decades |
| title | Do right to work laws worsen income inequality? Evidence from the last five decades |
| title_full | Do right to work laws worsen income inequality? Evidence from the last five decades |
| title_fullStr | Do right to work laws worsen income inequality? Evidence from the last five decades |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do right to work laws worsen income inequality? Evidence from the last five decades |
| title_short | Do right to work laws worsen income inequality? Evidence from the last five decades |
| title_sort | do right to work laws worsen income inequality evidence from the last five decades |
| topic | income trade unions synthetic control labour wages inequality |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151344 |
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