Is There Really a Faculty Union Salary Premium?

David W. Hedrick, Steven E. Henson, John M. Krieg and Charles S. Wassell

ILR Review, 2011, vol. 64, issue 3, 558-575

Abstract: Studies of the effects of unions on collegiate faculty salaries are inconclusive. Some estimate a significant union premium, but such estimates suffer from endogeneity between unions and wages, non-random measurement error, and failure to adjust for local cost-of-living differences. By using data from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF, 1988–2004) as well as other sources to identify institution-specific factors omitted from previous studies, the authors estimate significantly smaller union premia than those found by other researchers.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/001979391106400307

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