Right-to-Work Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting

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

The Impact of Unionization on the Wage of Hispanic Workers

This paper explores the role of unionization on the wages of Hispanic workers in the US from 1994 to 2013. Preliminary evidence indicates a 25 to 29 percent positive wage gap between unionized Hispanic male workers and their non-unionized counterparts. Once we control for socio-demographic characteristics and account for non-random selection into union membership, there is still a positive effe...

Children’s Right to Health and Protection in Iran; Domestic Implementation of International Laws

All children have a right to benefit from health facilities, goods and services and be protected from physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, and neglect or maltreatment. Some groups of children need special support to enjoy their rights. The aim of this paper is to review Iran’s laws and policies on the protection of children’s right to health. The method of this descriptive and analytic...

Welfare-to-Work, Wages and Wage Growth

This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme, that acts as a wage subsidy, on wage growth by exploiting an expansion to this welfare programme in the UK. The conventional wisdom is that such programmes trap recipients into low wage, low quality work – this comes from the simple argument that the “poverty trap”, which a wage subsidy for low income workers, induces re...