identify the impact of state Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on wages, benefits, and union status among private and public sector … workers. Despite a modest effect of RTW laws on wages, results suggest RTW laws differentially affect benefits, proxied by …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … face of higher migration costs, only immigrants with relatively high expected benefits of migration will choose to migrate … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older …

to the conventional view that labor costs are procyclical. Using BLS establishment-job data, we find that even real wages …, the main focus of prior literature, have become countercyclical. Benefit expenditures are less rigid than nominal wages …

Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring … countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage … distribution within these three economies. The findings suggest that the political economy of unions, coupled with market …

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of …

are entitled to a long list of legally mandated benefits and protections. Independent contractors are not. Independent …