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The Effect Of Adopting Right To Work Laws: A Paired State Approach, Johnny Xu
The Effect Of Adopting Right To Work Laws: A Paired State Approach, Johnny Xu
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The issue of unionization is an enduring one both politically and economically. A major subset within union studies deal with so-called “right-to-work laws.” States with right to work laws are concentrated heavily in the South and in the Plains states and have been that way since the 1940s or 1950s. The most recent additions of right-to-work states are Indiana and Michigan both in 2012. This paper will contribute to the debate by creating a new and novel dataset to analyze what the effects of adopting right to work laws are for a state over time as well as between a …