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« Neoliberal Arguments Concede the Main Point | Main | Amazon Enjoys Subsidies While Its Employees Must Rely On SNAP to Eat » Collective Bargaining is Ruining Men's Future ProspectsOr not. Link A recent academic paper by economists Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén argues that men who lived as school-age children in states where teachers were allowed to bargain collectively are less likely to work as adults and, when they do work, they earn significantly less than men who grew up in states where teachers were not allowed to bargain collectively. I think it's a stretch to call these guys "researchers". They couldn't be bothered to actually research the thing their entire argument hinges on - what state these men lived in while they were school-aged. Who let them publish this in the first place? Next, they'll be submitting academic papers with "research" that involves reading an encyclopedia entry. By min | April 26, 2018, 12:39 AM | Liberal Outrage |