Union security and right to work: a comprehensive bibliography

Article Abstract:

From a scholarly treatises to ideological polemics, more has been written in the past 50 years about union security and the right to work than almost any issue in labor law. It has been a profitable source of study for academics in several disciplines, and practitioners from both sides of the labor bar have contributed generously to the literature. For persons doing current work in the field, this vast accumulation of research and analysis provides an invaluable point of departure. Unfortunately, these materials are often somewhat difficult to find. Combining the traditional indices of legal and periodic literature is a time-consuming task, and a specialized bibliography has heretofore been lacking. Hopefully, this will supply the need. Notwithstanding my best efforts at thoroughness in compiling this bibliography, I will admit that I use the term 'comprehensive' with great trepidation, for it is in the nature of things that persons who make such claims are soon taught their folly. Given the scope and popularity of the topic, it is inevitable that I overlooked some worthy books and articles. The bibliography is divided into broad and sometimes overlapping categories and where a book or article was placed was often a close decision. Within each category, the materials are listed in chronological order. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Labor law, Labor unions, Bibliography

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Unmeasured skills in inter-industry wage differentials: evidence from the apparel industry

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Several recent studies have used first-differenced models to test the unmeasured-skills hypothesis with mixed results. I use matched-panel data from the CPS from 1983-1995 and retrospective data from the DWS from 1984-1992 to test for the possible effect of unmeasured skill on apparel workers' wages. The apparel industry provides a better test of the unmeasured-skills hypothesis than the overall economy because the likelihood of noncompetitive distortions to the wage is small. My results indicate that between 64 and 80 percent of the apparel industry differential is caused by skills unmeasured in standard OLS regressions, suggesting competitive wages for workers moving between apparels and other industries. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Apparel and accessories, not elsewhere classified, Apparel & Accessories NEC, All Other Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing, Compensation and benefits, Clothing industry, Clothing, Skilled labor

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Empirical evidence on the union free-rider problem: do right-to-work laws matter?

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This study provides detailed statistics by state, industry, occupation, and worker characteristics on private sector wage and salary workers covered by union collective bargaining agreements but who are not union members. A distinction is made between those workers who value the benefits of coverage more than the cost of membership, the true free riders, and those who do not, the induced riders. A probit union membership equation is estimated on a sample which excludes the covered nonmembers. Predicted probabilities are then calculated from the estimated model, yielding a quantifiable measure of the true free-rider problem. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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