Do Right to Work Laws Worsen Income Inequality? Evidence from the Last Five Decades

From income inequality to economic inequality

Focus must be shifted from income inequality to economic inequality because of the presence of causal influences on individual well-being and freedom that are economic in nature but cannot be expounded by simple statistics of incomes and commodity holdings. Attention must be given to heterogeneous magnitudes. Moreover, there is a need for the derivation of partial orderings based on explicit or...

Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory1

Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, we ...rst document that the recent increase in income inequality in the United States has not been accompanied by a corresponding rise in consumption inequality. Much of this divergence is due to di¤erent trends in within-group inequality, which has increased signi...cantly for income but little for consumption. We then develop a simple framework...

From the Bargaining Table to the Ballot Box: Political Effects of Right to Work Laws∗

Labor unions play a central role in the Democratic party coalition, providing candidates with voters, volunteers, and contributions, as well as lobbying policymakers. Has the sustained decline of organized labor hurt Democrats in elections and shifted public policy? We use the enactment of right-to-work laws—which weaken unions by removing agency shop protections— to estimate the effect of unio...

Income Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from the American Data.prf

epidemiology of typhoid fever in iran during last five decades from 1962-2011.

typhoid fever is one of the most important infectious diseases transmitted by contaminated food and water. this study aimed at epidemiological features of disease during the last five decades, over the period from 1962-2011.a retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using typhoid fever national surveillance data.the highest incidence of typhoid fever was registered in 1965 with 133.4 /...