Journal of Political Economy Vol. 95 No. 2 1987
The Impact of Right-to-Work Laws on Union Organizing
Abstract
Unlike most previous work, this paper examines the effect of right- to-work laws on flows into unionism through organizing rather than onthe stock of unionism. Organizing offers a far more sensitive indicator of the situa tion of unionism and allows the use of both cross-sectional and time-series methods to explore the impact of the passage of a right-to-work law. The authors find that right-to-work laws have a sizable initial impact on organizing that decay s over time. The effect holds up even when one uses fixed weights and causality tests.
- DOI
- 10.1086/261454
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 250-273
- Language
- en
- Sources
- crossref openalex