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 …

wages. This paper also contributes to the wider literature by providing the first estimates of the longitudinal gain (loss …) associated with joining (leaving) a union with respect to non-wage benefits. The findings show joining (leaving) a union … increases (decreases) the probability of being in receipt of legally guaranteed benefits such as bonuses and paid holidays. This …

wages, part-time work and employee churn undercut workers’ ability to pay their rent.Hungry Cooks presents findings showing … in the City of Los Angeles.Most frontline fast food workers are precariously housed because of low wages and part …

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 …

very small — only 0.13 percent of GDP by 2025. Taking into account the un-equalizing effect of trade on wages, this paper … the highest wages who are more protected from international competition. Rather, many top incomes will rise as a result of …

. We solve (i) for the Markov perfect equilibria with no commitment, under the assumption that the union chooses wages each … entire (infinite) sequence of wages. We conclude that the speed of adjustment of employment, that is higher in the … employment and wages only in the no-commitment case, i.e., the higher the relevance of adjustment costs the higher the wage and …

settlement is higher for nationwide unions than for other union groups within the works council and increases with the expected …