There is evidence that right-to-work laws—or, more broadly, the pro-business policies offered by right-to-work states—matter for economic growth. In research published in 2000, economist Thomas Holmes of the University of Minnesota compared counties close to the border between states with and without right-to-work laws (thereby holding constant an array of factors related to geography and climate). He found that the cumulative growth of employment in manufacturing (the traditional area of union strength prior to the rise of public-employee unions) in the right-to-work states was 26 percentage points greater than that in the non-right-to-work states.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Barro on Unions
Robert doesn't like them. An excerpt:
Sunday, February 27, 2011
An Econ Conference for Undergrads
Conferences for econ profs are too common to mention here, but conferences for undergrads are more rare. So let me call attention this conference at Georgetown. Application deadline is just a couple weeks away.
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