The Impact of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Disputes in the U.S. Public Sector: No Policy May Be the Worst Policy / Janet Currie, Sheena McConnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Currie, Janet.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

McConnell, Sheena.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w3978.

NBER working paper series no. w3978

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

The Impact of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Disputes in the U.S. Public Sector

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1992.

Summary:

This paper estimates the impact of collective bargaining legislation on disputes during labor negotiations in the U.S. public sector. We use a large national sample of U.S. state and local government contracts to compare the incidence and intensity of disputes by similar workers under different forms of collective bargaining legislation. The breadth of our data allows us to examine the impact of five different forms of legislation. Our principal finding is that strike costs, measured by strike duration and the number of working days lost, are highest in jurisdictions that provide no explicit framework for bargaining or dispute resolution.

Notes:

Print version record

January 1992.