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Does Unionization Increase Faculty Retention?
Author(s) -
RESS DANIEL I.
Publication year - 1994
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.1994.tb00342.x
Subject(s) - salary , retention rate , demographic economics , labour economics , differential effects , work (physics) , differential (mechanical device) , university faculty , psychology , economics , political science , business , medical education , medicine , law , marketing , engineering , mechanical engineering , aerospace engineering
Although there has been a large amount of research on the unionnonunion salary differential in higher education, little empirical work has been done on the possible nonsalary effects of faculty unions. This paper, using data from the AAUP and other sources, investigates unionization's impact on faculty retention rates. It is found that, holding salary, benefits, and other factors constant, unions increase a school's faculty retention rate for associate and full professors (although not for assistant professors). The impact of unionization, however, is not felt until a number of years after a representation election.