TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ichniowski,Casey
TI  - Economic Effects of The Firefighters' Union
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 291
PY  - 1978
Y2  - October 1978
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0291
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0291.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Casey Ichniowski
Graduate School of Business
3022 Broadway Street, 713 Uris Hall
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212/854-4433
Fax: 212/316-9355
E-Mail: bei1@columbia.edu
AB  - This is a study of the effects of unionism in the public sector occupation of firefighting. A large and detailed set of data permits the examination of submarkets of this occupation. A before/after methodology is introduced to obtain more precise estimates of union wage differentials. The study's findings are: (1) that there is a greater union effect on fringes than on salaries which indicates a significant alteration in the composition of the compensation package;(2) that the estimates from the before/after methodology confirm the cross-section results which show modest union wage differentials; and ,most significantly, (3) that the union effect varies along different dimensions -- most notably the length of the contractual arrangement between municipality and union.
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