Two faces of union voice in the public sector

Gunderson, Morley

doi:10.1007/s12122-005-1012-6

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“…Because unions often are focused on improving working conditions as well as pay (Retsinas 1982), teacher organization may lead to smaller class sizes and more satisfied teachers. The increase in workers' job satisfaction due to unionization is referred to as a "union voice" effect, and there is evidence in the private sector literature that giving workers a voice with which to change their working environment increases productivity (Gunderson 2005). If teachers protect themselves from perceived or actual administrative abuses by exercising their union voice, unionization can have positive productivity effects.…”

Section: Theoretical Predictionsmentioning

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The Effect of Teachers’ Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States

Lovenheim

2009

Journal of Labor Economics

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Using a unique data set on teachers' union election certifications from Iowa, Indiana, and Minnesota, I estimate the effect of teachers' unions on school district resources and on student educational attainment. My empirical strategy allows for nonparametric leads and lags of union age. I find no impact on teacher pay or per student district expenditures but that unions increase teacher employment by 5%. I find no class size effect because of enrollment increases in unionized districts, and I estimate that unions have no net effect on high school dropout rates. These findings highlight the importance of correctly measuring unionization status.Public school teacher collective bargaining has become a stable fixture in the American education system over the past 40 years. For example, as of 1988, all but seven states had passed a law either allowing for the right of I would like to thank

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Section: Theoretical Predictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Teachers’ Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States

Lovenheim

2009

Journal of Labor Economics

118

135

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“…Supporting this African-American collectivist tradition, she argued, has been the traditional church, which has framed freedom as communally achieved and realizable only for the group as a whole (see also Dawson, 1994). The overrepresentation of African Americans in another institution-public-sector employment-where commitment to public service values is commonplace and where unions often engage in "social unionism" alongside community groups (Gunderson, 2005) may similarly mean that prosocial values could hold sway. 2 Another reason is the historic link between unions and civil-rights-oriented social movements.…”

Section: Factors Affecting African Americans' Orientation To Unionsmentioning

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Race Differences in Motivations for Joining Unions: The Role of Prosocial Beliefs

Gumber

Padavic²

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective This article investigates whether a prosocial orientation—which stresses unions’ concern for all working people—might differentially influence whites’ and African Americans’ decisions to join unions. Methods Logistic regression using data from the 2005 AFL‐CIO Union Message Survey. Results African Americans’ odds of voting “yes” in a hypothetical union election are nearly two times greater than whites’ odds, and prosocial beliefs partially mediate this effect. Conclusion A model of unionism that seeks political goals beyond narrow workplace ones (i.e., that capitalizes on the prosocial orientation documented here) may increase unions’ success in attracting African‐American members, thereby improving African Americans' labor market experience and revitalizing the labor movement.

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“…Empowering teachers could result in higher achievement from a more efficient allocation of resources, since educational administrators do not have full knowledge of the education production function. There also could be a "union voice" effect, whereby giving teachers a voice with which to influence their working environment makes them more productive (Freeman 1980, Gunderson 2005. A more favorable working environment could further induce more productive workers to enter teaching.…”

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The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Lovenheim

Willén

2019

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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We analyze how exposure to teacher collective bargaining affects long-run outcomes for students, exploiting the timing of state dutyto-bargain law passage in a cross-cohort difference-in-difference framework. Among men, exposure to a duty-to-bargain law in the first 10 years after passage depresses annual earnings by $2,134 (3.93 percent), decreases weekly hours worked by 0.42, and reduces employment and labor force participation. The earnings estimate implies that current duty-to-bargain laws reduce earnings by $213.8 billion annually. Effects grow with time since law passage, are largest among nonwhites, and are not evident for women. Duty-to-bargain laws reduce male noncognitive skills, supporting the labor market findings. (

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Two faces of union voice in the public sector

Cited by 26 publications

References 44 publications

The Effect of Teachers’ Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States

The Effect of Teachers’ Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States

Race Differences in Motivations for Joining Unions: The Role of Prosocial Beliefs

The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

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