Article
Teachers’ Unions, Compensation, and Tenure
Industrial Relations
(2015)
Abstract
In this paper I show that school districts in which teachers negotiate via collective bargaining have greater returns to experience and grant tenure earlier than districts without collective bargaining. Districts that are unionized, either with or without legal collective bargaining protections, have higher returns to degrees and higher starting salaries than districts without a union. Unionization is not strongly correlated with the existence of output‐based pay for performance but is correlated with the use of output‐based measures in tenure decisions. Unionization is positively correlated with the number of junior teachers dismissed for poor performance but not strongly correlated with the number of senior teachers dismissed for poor performance.
Keywords
- collective bargaining
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring March 12, 2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12089
Citation Information
Kristine L West. "Teachers’ Unions, Compensation, and Tenure" Industrial Relations Vol. 54 Iss. 2 (2015) p. 294 - 320 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kristine-west/3/