Collective Bargaining and Community College Faculty: What Is the Wage Impact?

Authors

Steven E. Henson, Western Washington University
John M. Krieg, Western Washington University
Charles S. Wassell Jr, Central Washington UniversityFollow
David W. Hedrick, Central Washington UniversityFollow

Department or Administrative Unit

Economics

Document Type

Article

Author Copyright

© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

Publication Date

3-2012

Journal

Journal of Labor Research

Abstract

Studies that measure the impacts of collective bargaining on the salary of faculty in two-year colleges are limited. Most studies of faculty unions have used data that combine faculty in both two-year and four-year institutions. Recent work has demonstrated that past estimates of the impacts of unions on full-time faculty salaries in higher education suffer from multiple data, methodological, and statistical problems. This paper addresses these deficiencies, and the results support the claim that collective bargaining increases faculty salaries in two-year institutions, though by less than previously documented.

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Recommended Citation

Henson, S. E., Krieg, J. M., Wassell, C. S., & Hedrick, D. W. (2011). Collective Bargaining and Community College Faculty: What Is the Wage Impact? Journal of Labor Research, 33(1), 104–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-011-9128-3