The Effect of Teachers' Organizations on Salaries and Class Size

Hall, W. Clayton; Carroll, Norman E.

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“…Several studies have investigated the markets for government employees. For example, see: Antos and Rosen (1975); Landon and Baird (1972); Carlson and Robinson (1969); Chambers (1978); Ehrenberg (1973); Hall and Caroll (1973); and Kasper (1970).…”

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Locational Variations in the Public School Teacher Supply Price

Wentzler

1981

Public Finance Quarterly

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adjustments for differences in the supply prices of education inputs across school districts. Urban school districts often receive additional state education aid per pupil based on the beliefthat such districts face relatively higher supply prices for education inputs. This article evaluates the utilization oflocation as an indicator of district supply price differences by presenting a model to test whether location alone is the appropriate criterion for the adjustment ofstate aid to reflect such differences. If other district characteristics are more influential in the determination of supply prices. then these might also be included in the state aid adjustment technique. The article compares the distributional consequences of a more comprehensive adjustment procedure which includes district characteristics with the simpler locational weighting procedure.State grants-in-aid represent the primary instrument to • promote equality of educational opportunity among school districts within a state. These education grants are generally distributed to provide more assistance to school districts with a relatively low property tax base and relatively high tax effort. Objections have been raised to this reliance on property values as an accurate measure of equal opportunity. Specifically, two studies (Levin, Muller, and Sandoval, 1973; Reischauer and Hartman, 1973) indicate that urban school districts pay higher prices for a unit of education than do their rural counterparts. Consequently, a dollar of state aid to urban districts would represent lower real

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Locational Variations in the Public School Teacher Supply Price

Wentzler

1981

Public Finance Quarterly

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“…Better pay and more secure working conditions may attract higher quality teachers and foster a standard of professionalism that is conducive to effective teaching (Eberts & Stone, 1984, 1987. Unions also may negotiate classroom changes by pressing for smaller classes, time set aside during the school day for lesson preparations, and lighter teaching loads -factors that some social scientists have suggested are positively associated with educational output (Hall & Carroll, 1975;Powell & Steelman, 1996;Rowan, Chiang, & Miller, 1997). Additionally, unions may strengthen teacher standards through licensure procedures that eventually boost educational productivity (Kleiner & Petree, 1988) and may lead to changes in administrative practices and styles that prove beneficial (Zigarelli, 1994).…”

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Do Teacher Unions Hinder Educational Performance?: Lessons Learned from State SAT and ACT Scores

Carini¹,

Powell²,

Steelman³

2000

Harvard Educational Review

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“…School district enrollment is expected to have a positive impact on teacher salary outcomes. Larger school districts are likely to offer more specialized programs, are more likely to be located in urban areas, and may have more onerous working conditions (Hall and Carroll, 1973). Enrollment is measured by the total pupil count on the third Friday of each school year.…”

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“…Two measures of demand are used: (1) Equalized Value Per Member in the district (total property value divided by the number of school-aged children in the district); and (2) Per Capita Income in the county in which the school district is located. Assuming education is a normal good, a rise in per capita community income will increase the demand for education and hence raise the wages of teachers (Hall and Carroll, 1973). If the votkrs in a community and the taxpayers were exactly the same set of people, there would be little point in considering property values (i.e., Equalized Value Per Member) in addition to per capita income.…”

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The Effect of Interest Arbitration on Salary Dispersion Among Employers

Jarley

1992

Industrial Relations

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This study uses Wisconsin teacher salary grid data for the period 1974–75 to 1984–85 to examine the impact of interest arbitration on wage determination and salary dispersion among employers. Models of wage determination are developed and estimated using observations from a period before and after implementation of arbitration. These wage equations are then used to decompose the difference in the variance of the log wages for the two periods. The results suggest that although observed salary dispersion is greater at the statewide level under arbitration, the imposition of arbitration mitigates the impact of measured factors on wage determination, resulting in less salary dispersion within small clusters of school districts, all else constant.

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The Effect of Teachers' Organizations on Salaries and Class Size

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Locational Variations in the Public School Teacher Supply Price

Locational Variations in the Public School Teacher Supply Price

Do Teacher Unions Hinder Educational Performance?: Lessons Learned from State SAT and ACT Scores

The Effect of Interest Arbitration on Salary Dispersion Among Employers

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