TY  - JOUR
AU  - Currie,Janet
AU  - McConnell,Sheena
TI  - The Impact of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Disputes in the U.S. Public Sector: No Policy May Be the Worst Policy
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3978
PY  - 1992
Y2  - January 1992
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3978
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3978.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Janet Currie
Princeton University
316 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-7393
Fax: 609-258-5974
E-Mail: jcurrie@princeton.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -