How right-to-work laws affect wages

How Immigrants Affect California Employment and Wages

One of the most contentious issues about immigration is how it affects the wages and employment opportunities of U.S. natives. If immigrants hurt the labor market options of native workers, Cali-fornians should feel the most pain. California has a higher share of immigrants in its population and labor force than any other state. The large inflow of documented and undocumented immigrants during ...

Right-to-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life

The most essential ingredient embodied in the liberty championed by the classical liberal writers of the Enlightenment and beyond is individual choice and right of expression—the right of persons to say what they think, decide for themselves what groups that want to join, what religion that want to profess, what person they want to marry, what goods they want to buy or sell, and what persons th...

Right-to-Work Laws and Fatalities in Construction

Insured Loss Inflation: How Natural Catastrophes Affect Reconstruction Labor Wages

In the aftermath of a natural catastrophe there is an increased demand for skilled reconstruction labor, which leads to significant increases of reconstruction labor wages and hence insured losses. Such inflation effects are referred to as "Demand Surge" effects. It is important for insurance companies to properly account for these effects when calculating insurance premiums and determining the...

The Politics of Labor-Management Relations: Detecting the Conditions that Affect Changes in Right-to-Work Laws

, Vol. 53, Issue 1, pp. 118–137, ISSN 0037-7791, electronic ISSN 1533-8533. © 2006 by Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at http://www. ucpress.edu/journals/rights.htm. The Politics of Labor-Management R...