To test the predictions of this model, we use data from 13 US states who passed pay transparency laws protecting the “right of workers to talk” (ROWTT) about wages prior to federal policies extending these rights to all government contract workers in 2016. Using a multi-period difference-in-differences (“event study”) design, we find that ROWTT laws decrease the average wages of full-time workers by roughly 2% over the three years following enactment.
The size of this effect is mediated by the degree of individual bargaining power that workers have before the enactment of these laws. We find a negligible impact on the wages of unionized occupations and a bigger impact on wages of college-educated workers with higher individual bargaining power, whose wages decline on average by 4%
To test the predictions of this model, we use data from 13 US states who passed pay transparency laws protecting the “right of workers to talk” (ROWTT) about wages prior to federal policies extending these rights to all government contract workers in 2016. Using a multi-period difference-in-differences (“event study”) design, we find that ROWTT laws decrease the average wages of full-time workers by roughly 2% over the three years following enactment.
The size of this effect is mediated by the degree of individual bargaining power that workers have before the enactment of these laws. We find a negligible impact on the wages of unionized occupations and a bigger impact on wages of college-educated workers with higher individual bargaining power, whose wages decline on average by 4%
The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War." Right now the digital security needs of Russians and Ukrainians are very different, and they lead to very different caveats about how to mitigate the risks associated with using Telegram. For Ukrainians in Ukraine, whose physical safety is at risk because they are in a war zone, digital security is probably not their highest priority. They may value access to news and communication with their loved ones over making sure that all of their communications are encrypted in such a manner that they are indecipherable to Telegram, its employees, or governments with court orders. Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. Official government accounts have also spread fake fact checks. An official Twitter account for the Russia diplomatic mission in Geneva shared a fake debunking video claiming without evidence that "Western and Ukrainian media are creating thousands of fake news on Russia every day." The video, which has amassed almost 30,000 views, offered a "how-to" spot misinformation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces "destroy the invaders wherever we can."
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