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Title: The Change in Teacher Union Wage Premium after the Janus Court Case
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: Unlike most unions, teacher unions have maintained steady membership over the past 40 years yet recently teacher protests have been on the rise. Is this because teacher unions are no longer effective? Given the data available and a DID model framework, selection into unions and selection into teaching were controlled in this study, however, selection into employment is saved for future analysis. Although the DID variable did not prove to be statistically significant in the three variations of the DID model studied here, other features were quite intriguing. For instance, the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition indicates union membership results in significantly higher wages after the Janus versus the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees court decision. As a result, although one form of analysis did not prove to be illustrative, another did. This research will act as a sound basis for future studies on the effectiveness of teacher unions.
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Authors: Lichtenstein, Madison
Institution: University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill
Department: Economics
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Publisher Location: Chapel Hill
Pages: 1-48
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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