The effects of different labor legal frameworks on public-employee wages
| Pooled cross-section 1960-2010 | Fixed effects | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| Panel A. Relative to no policy | ||||
| Collective bargaining prohibited | -1.25% | -5.76% | 5.80% | 2.04% |
| Meet and confer | 3.84% | 2.07% | 1.87% | -0.33% |
| Duty to bargain | 10.36% | 4.97% | 6.70% | 0.81% |
| State control added | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Time control added | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Observations | 1,631,366 | |||
| Panel B. Relative to all other policies | ||||
| Duty to Bargain | 10.68% | 7.62% | 5.54% | 0.53% |
| State control added | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Time control added | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Observations | 1,631,366 | |||
Note: The dependent variable is the log of annual wages. The 1% individual weighted sample is restricted to full-time employees of state and local government who worked for a full year in the year prior to the sample. Every figure in the table is statistically significant at the .01 level.
Source: Public Use Microdata Sample of the U.S. Census for 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000 and American Community Survey for 2010 (Ruggles et al. 2010) and NBER Collective Bargaining Law Data (Freeman and Valletta 1988)
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