Learning from Interest Arbitration: The Next round

Olson, Craig A.; Rau, Barbara L.

doi:10.1177/001979399705000203

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“…We also included other district characteristics that may influence teacher wages, such as the property wealth per student (WEALTH), the local private sector log wage (PRVTWAGE), and the local property tax rate (TAX) (Olson & Rau, 1997). The property wealth and the local private sector wage were measured in 1990 dollars.…”

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Institutionalization of athletic conferences for wage comparison in collective bargaining in High Schools in the US: A natural experiment

Park

2018

Journal of Management & Organization

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Social comparison plays an important role in collective bargaining. However, due to self-serving bias, the bargaining parties rarely agree on appropriate referents. In this respect, Wisconsin teachers’ collective bargaining provides an intriguing case because there is consensus on an appropriate comparison group: the schools’ athletic conferences. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the use of athletic conferences as referents is institutionalized beyond their technical merits. Using conference realignment as a natural experiment, this paper shows that when the bargaining parties experienced conference realignment, they changed their comparison groups. Because this realignment can be regarded as exogenous to collective bargaining, such changes in comparison groups are unlikely to be accounted for by technical factors, thus providing support for institutional theory.

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confidence: 99%

“…The property wealth was measured in millions of dollars. Because it is usually determined after collective agreement is reached, the local property tax rate was lagged (Olson & Rau, 1997).…”

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Institutionalization of athletic conferences for wage comparison in collective bargaining in High Schools in the US: A natural experiment

Park

2018

Journal of Management & Organization

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“…the list of potential arbitrators are jointly selected by the union and management. Olson and Rau (1997) investigated the impact of FOA decisions in one round on negotiated settlements in the subsequent 4 rOund.…”

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Can Prior Offers and Arbitration Outcomes Be Used to Predict the Winners of Subsequent Final‐Offer Arbitration Cases?

Marburger

Burgess

2004

Southern Economic Journal

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The purpose of interest arbitration is to encourage bargainers to negotiate their own mutually agreeable settlement. In final‐offer arbitration (FOA), the bargainers exchange final offers. If a settlement is not reached, an independent arbitrator selects one of the final offers as the award. At the beginning of each arbitration period, the only information available to bargainers relating to arbitrator preferences is past outcomes. Given its goal of driving negotiated settlements, an effective FOA process requires bargainers to infer useful information about arbitrator preferences from past outcomes. Using data from major league baseball, this article provides evidence that past FOA decisions are positively correlated with the outcomes of future FOA cases.

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