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Wages, Nonwage Compensation, and Municipal Unions
Author(s) -
ZAX JEFFREY S.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1988.tb01009.x
Subject(s) - compensation (psychology) , wage , labour economics , bargaining power , collective bargaining , business , labor union , power (physics) , wage bargaining , economics , microeconomics , psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , psychoanalysis
This study demonstrates that union power in municipal labor markets depends upon the form of unionization within each municipal department and on municipal bargaining policies, holding constant the legal environment. Bargaining units achieve larger increases in total compensation than unrecognized organizations, which are themselves stronger than unorganized departments. Compensation levels for unorganized and organized departments are higher in cities that bargain with other departments than in cities which do not bargain. Union wage effects understate total compensation effects regardless of the degree of unionization