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Right-to-Work Laws, Free Riders, and Unionization in the Local Public Sector

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  • Ichniowski, Casey
  • Zax, Jeffrey S

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Empirical models of local government unionization reveal substantial reductions in union membership due to right-to-work laws. Free riders, rather than underlying antiunion sentiments, are probably responsible because the unionization models include better measures of sentiments than right-to-work laws. Furthermore, these laws reduce the probability that bargaining unions form by more than they reduce the probability that nonbargaining associations form in three of five local government functions. These results also confirm the importance of free riders because union security clauses that prohibit free riders in states without right-to-work laws exist only in collective-bargaining contracts. Copyright 1991 by University of Chicago Press.

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  • Ichniowski, Casey & Zax, Jeffrey S, 1991. "Right-to-Work Laws, Free Riders, and Unionization in the Local Public Sector," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 9(3), pages 255-275, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jlabec:v:9:y:1991:i:3:p:255-75
    DOI: 10.1086/298268
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    1. Ozkan Eren & I. Serkan Ozbeklik, 2011. "Right-to-Work Laws and State-Level Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the Case Studies of Idaho and Oklahoma Using Synthetic Control Method," Working Papers 1101 Classification-JEL J, University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics.
    2. Kyung-nok Chun, 2023. "What do Right-to-Work Laws do to Unions? Evidence from Six Recently-Enacted RTW Laws," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 44(1), pages 94-144, June.
    3. James M. Poterba & Kim S. Rueben, 1998. "Fiscal Institutions and Public Sector Labor Markets," NBER Working Papers 6659, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Doerner, William M. & Doerner, William G., 2011. "Collective Bargaining and Job Benefits in Florida Municipal Police Agencies, 2000-2009," MPRA Paper 86548, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Oct 2012.
    5. Franklin G. Mixon & Rand W. Ressler, 1993. "Union Influence and Right‐to‐Work Law Passage," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(2), pages 183-192, April.
    6. Steven E. Abraham & Paula B. Voost, 2000. "Right‐to‐Work Laws: New Evidence from the Stock Market," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 67(2), pages 345-362, October.
    7. Behroz Baraghoshi & Cihan Bilginsoy, 2013. "Interstate Variations in Private Sector Union Density in the U.S," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 34(2), pages 180-202, June.
    8. Thomas J. Holmes, 1998. "The Effect of State Policies on the Location of Manufacturing: Evidence from State Borders," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 106(4), pages 667-705, August.

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