The Union Effect on the Earnings Distribution in Higher Education in Ohio

Mary Ellen Benedict

The American Economist, 1999, vol. 43, issue 1, 57-70

Abstract: Using data on individual faculty from seven Ohio public universities, this study analyzes how collective bargaining affects the faculty earnings distribution. An empirical analysis of the variance of log earnings and earnings regressions by union status reveal that collective bargaining in postsecondary schools slightly increases the dispersion of earnings in this sample. This result is mainly due to an increased dispersion of female faculty salaries in unionized schools, which appears to be caused by unionized females in higher ranks receiving greater returns to rank than their nonunionized counterparts.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1177/056943459904300107

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